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im looking at getting a zbox aswell cyberman so was interested to see theyve got some new ones coming out this month,
are you in the UK mate?
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for linux, i'd use the ZBOX ID80
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I bought the ad04 directly from zotac. Had some issues with xbmcbuntu detecting video drivers finally built manually, but 1080p was sluggish.
Tried openelec daily build and it working great. No issues at all.
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2012-02-21, 16:36
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i have set up 3 AD04s and never had a problem with high bitrate 1080p, all running XBMCbuntu now
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I've got two of these boxes - one is the AMD/ATI Zotac AD04, and the other is the Atom/nVidia box. Both are working well at the moment. The AMD based system had some fan noise to begin with - I increased the temperature sensitivity from the default of 30 to 40 in the BIOS and that has stopped the fan from being on nearly constantly. (Arguably, I could have left it a bit longer to see if it would 'settle'). The drivers were a bit of a pain for the GPU, and needed a manual download and build from the ATI/AMD site.
The Intel/nVidia system also seemed to think that my HD TV was best suited at 1280 x 768 for some reason, and I needed to modify xorg.conf to enable Twinview so that I could use nvidia-settings to use the correct 1920x1080 resolution. When this was done, the screen calibration was off, and needed manually adjusting via nvidia-settings (calibration set to 80) to make the screen 'fit' my display. The nvidia-settings.rc file was then not loaded correctly (needed an edit to remove the hostname:0 prefix to the settings to get it to work correctly.
And finally ... the nVidia HDA audio (for audio via HDMI) was muted by default, and needed unmuting in alsamixer.
Overall, I'm pleased. Suspend seems to work, although I need more time testing to make sure that it does wake up correctly via the remote (I've had a couple of non-waking tests). Some fine tuning and all should be sweet. I'd definitely recommend these boxes.
Just for further info: the Intel/nVidia connects through a Pioneer surround sound system vi HDMI (which made screen detection in Linux a bit confusing at first, as the screen was detected as Pioneer and not the Philips TV). The AMD based system just connects directly to a Sony TV via HDMI. One system has 2GB of RAM, the other 4GB (no real difference though), and I've put a 128GB SSD in each, with movies/tv/music/pictures fed from an NFS server.
EDIT: Both run XBMCbuntu Eden beta3
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