does chipset matter for building a divx machine?

[spanky]

hi, i am looking to build a new machine dedicated for divx playback (to my tv of course). i am going to be using a 750 tbird and am looking for a mobo. the cheaper the better. it seems right now, most cheapy mobo's r based on the kt133 chipset. is the kt133 bad? i have several amd based systems right now and they all use amd761 or sis735. i haven't used a full fledged via chipset board. will i be ok getting the kt133 boards? will it matter that much? any comments and feedback would be greatly apprecieated! thanx!

 

[jiffylube1024]

I think that it will be fine. I know that the KT133A is an excellent chipset (well, was anyways); some KT133A motherboards can even run Athlon XP's. I believe the difference between the two chipsets (KT133 and the -A) is that the KT133 runs 100MHz FSB, 133 MHz RAM, and the KT133A was 133/133, so they should be pretty similar. 750 MHz should be fine for divx watching as well.

One thing, wouldn't the price of a divx machine be comparable to that of a DVD burner? You'd get even better quality and be rid of the clunkiness of a PC connected to your TV. Of course you'd lose the ability to stroll that huge divx library and watch whatever you want in seconds...

Edit: I beat arond the bush and didn't truly answer your initial question.

does chipset matter for building a divx machine?

My opinion: No.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
One thing, wouldn't the price of a divx machine be comparable to that of a DVD burner? You'd get even better quality and be rid of the clunkiness of a PC connected to your TV. Of course you'd lose the ability to stroll that huge divx library and watch whatever you want in seconds...

i'm not really interested in a dvd-burner just yet. the technology is still kinda "immature" & somewhat expensive. and also, i am perfectly happy with my 24x lite-on cdrw and u pretty much hit the nail on the head with the divx library comment also... i think another cool thing about the divx box idea is that at any moment, i can use it as another pc. maybe some gaming on the tv? nes emulator? i'm such a geek.

but back on topic... thanx for in "no" vote

 

[xroyal]

Asuming stability a must, MSI K7T Turbo (plain or Turbo2 + Raid model if needed) are great KT133A chipsets. Run XPs (I have used XP on both) and memory can run asynch. Plain Turbos can be had on Ebay for little $. Good luck.

EDIT: Per MSI, plain Turbo goes to XP1800+. Turbo2 has XP2200+ bios out.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: spankyOO7

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
One thing, wouldn't the price of a divx machine be comparable to that of a DVD burner? You'd get even better quality and be rid of the clunkiness of a PC connected to your TV. Of course you'd lose the ability to stroll that huge divx library and watch whatever you want in seconds...

i'm not really interested in a dvd-burner just yet. the technology is still kinda "immature" & somewhat expensive.

Same here I was just mentioning it. DVD+R and DVD+RW sounds way more promising and mature than DVD-R to me as well. I'm waiting for DVD+R to become mainstream and affordable myself .