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On 21:32 Tue 03 Oct , Jack Lloyd wrote: |
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> This may be a dumb question, but I can't find anything useful via |
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> Google. I'm running Gentoo on my Ultra5, and am starting to wonder if |
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> maybe I can't turn it into a Myth/DVD/MAME machine (since god knows I |
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> don't do anything else useful with it). |
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> Obvious problems: |
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> Onboard video sucks - thinking maybe an ATI 7500 AIW PCI here? |
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> IDE controller is worse - stream everything over the network, or |
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> install a decent IDE controller in one of the PCI slots and connect |
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> the DVD drive to it. |
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> I've already thrown in a DVD drive, new hard drive and a USB |
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> controller card, just in an effort to make the machine slightly |
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> non-useless. |
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> Is this completely impossible? Any suggestions/pointers? I'd rather |
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> find out now than after I spend the money on a video card I can't |
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> actually use. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Jack |
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Jack, |
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What is the clock speed on the cpu? I have never tried DVD/TV on my |
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333Mhz Ultra5 but DivX playback was awful, it can just almost cope with |
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full screen mpeg playback. I think these machines just aren't powerful |
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enough to cope with modern media apps. |
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By the way, is it the IDE controller that sucks? I always put the crap |
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hard drive performance down the fact they are 5400rpm disk. |
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Regards, |
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Oliver Wilson |
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