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roeroe
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I'm thinking of building a HTPC with Linux and XBMC
Which one you guys reckon is the go
AMD 780G chipset or Geforce 8200 chipset?
I know nvidia has better linux driver support but I heard amd is making progress with their Linux drivers as well.
I want to go down the 780G path and want to see if anyone has any opinion regarding either the 2 chipsets and current Linux support.
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Clumsy
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I am building a HTPC with the 780G chipset as well, but until the components are here it will probably be another 2 or 3 weeks. From what I have heard, the current fglrx drivers are shaping up to be pretty usable, and the opensource drivers are getting better and better as well. Most of the stuff seems to work already, albeit I don't think you will get the hardware acceleration of HD content, one of the features that really makes the chipset standout. Since amd/ati is really doing something for the opensource community though, I am hoping we will see full support for that in the near future.
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I have not used either chipset that you mention, but I have had better experiences with nvidia drivers than ati.
Hopefully ati will improve, but I am not willing to be a beta tester in this area!
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Hm, after some digging on phoronix.com it seems HD acceleration might even be working already, this will need some testing in 2 weeks. If you can wait that long, I definately promise to post my results.
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you mind giving a link to the place you found that?
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Ah, that's too bad. Thanks for the clarification gamester.
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AMD/ATI have made some great headway in terms of linux support, but imo they haven't caught up nVidia. So for right now I'd say nVidia, but who knows what the next couple months will bring.
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Optical/coaxial SPDIF can only transport Dolby/DTS compressed 5.1 tracks or 2-channel Raw/LPCM tracks. SPDIF just doesn't have the bandwidth necessary to do 8 channel LPCM. This is one of the largest benefits of HDMI, sadly for HTPC owners only the G35 chipset currently supports this.
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