> I'd recommend at least a P4 and a Nvidia card - Microcenter has a Geforce > 210 (fanless) made by Zotac for around $48 - plus there's a $15 mail in > rebate. Note, according to the details I've seen, the 210 doesn't haven enough horsepower to do full HD decoding with all the bells and whistles: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU Ended up going with a 220 card myself... and couldn't find a fanless one. But, I can't hear the fan over the cpu fan anyway. Also, if you are working in a small case... the fanless cards tend to have huge heat sinks. Which may intrude on another slot that you need. In my combined backend / frontend - things were a bit cramped down there: http://armbrust.dyndns.org/gallery/d/33861-1/_2010+-+03_+-+Myth+TV+Build+11.jpg Things to consider. Less of an issue when you are using external capture devices like the HDHomeRun.
