2013-12-08, 01:36
I put together one box and was planing on using a i3, but decided to make an intermediary one now with an old P4 i had...
it is all working perfectly, except for a noticeable video refresh problem. It drives me and a few people crazy, but two others swear they can't see it... anyway, it is there :/
It shows a banding going down on the screen on fast scenes. perfectly fine on anything that is not action where the whole screen changes. I find it so distracting that i am only watching netflix via the wii just so i don't have to see it.
I'm outputing via VGA to my plasma TV, which have a VGA in. but I also outputted via DVI-D->HDMI and the same thing happens.
The card I am using is a geForce2 gtx something (will get the exact model and edit this)
I'm thinking of either biting the bullet and getting a new mother board + i3, or scrounging craigslist/ebay/newegg for a $20ish video card that will give me decent video out via VGA or HDMI. I don't care about audio via HDMI as i will be outputing 2.0 (mobo supports 5.1, but too much work, encoders, wires. nah.) audio to dumb amps.
This is the mobo i am using https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5GPLX...ifications
Any suggestions on what i should do to get rid of that? it is the only thing bothering me. sound is ok. i can capture 2 channels to HDD while watch a mp4 just fine. there is nothing bothering me to upgrade now besides this.
oh, and i am using the opensource linux drivers on untainted debian... i have a thing against binary blobs... i read a lot about this and i reached the conclusion that this should only affect 3D... but please do tell me if i'm wrong here.
it is all working perfectly, except for a noticeable video refresh problem. It drives me and a few people crazy, but two others swear they can't see it... anyway, it is there :/
It shows a banding going down on the screen on fast scenes. perfectly fine on anything that is not action where the whole screen changes. I find it so distracting that i am only watching netflix via the wii just so i don't have to see it.
I'm outputing via VGA to my plasma TV, which have a VGA in. but I also outputted via DVI-D->HDMI and the same thing happens.
The card I am using is a geForce2 gtx something (will get the exact model and edit this)
I'm thinking of either biting the bullet and getting a new mother board + i3, or scrounging craigslist/ebay/newegg for a $20ish video card that will give me decent video out via VGA or HDMI. I don't care about audio via HDMI as i will be outputing 2.0 (mobo supports 5.1, but too much work, encoders, wires. nah.) audio to dumb amps.
This is the mobo i am using https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5GPLX...ifications
Any suggestions on what i should do to get rid of that? it is the only thing bothering me. sound is ok. i can capture 2 channels to HDD while watch a mp4 just fine. there is nothing bothering me to upgrade now besides this.
oh, and i am using the opensource linux drivers on untainted debian... i have a thing against binary blobs... i read a lot about this and i reached the conclusion that this should only affect 3D... but please do tell me if i'm wrong here.