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mr.b
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I'm considering buying a board with onboard x3500 and was wondering if anyone besides BLKMGK has given it a shot??
thanks,
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I have P5E-VM HDMI motherboard, which use G35 chipset (x3500 IGP). But I didn't start to use XBMC for Linux yet.
In my knowledge, x3500 doesn't support h.264 hardware accelerate (New G45, which use X4500 IGP will support that), but it support OpenGL (10 if you use Vista), and of cause DirectX. It perform pretty good under Vista. And ASUS provide driver for almost everything on this MB for Linux as well.
So, I don't see no reason to worried about it.
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2008-03-06, 22:23
(This post was last modified: 2008-03-06, 22:25 by pike.)
I'm quite dissapointed with Intel's opensource drivers. Intel probably envisioned a horde of people helping them develop, but afaik (?) this hasn't happened yet
As a result, the drivers are immature and incomplete at best
I'd guesstimate 80-90% complete with the exception of Video Acceleration (which is sorely missing) and 60-70% stable tops
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mr.b
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thanks for the responses... I did more research and found even more reasons not to settle on a board with g35 chipset.....
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Generally speaking XBMC/linux isn't at the point where you want to experiement with the platform. Run what the devs are running. And that means nvidia graphics and ubuntu 7.10 32bit.
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I have this Asus board with the x3500 chipset, it plays full HD beautifully. I use an E8400 intel processor.
I am running the PPA XBMC on Mythbuntu 8.10, and MythTV 0.21.