What is the best HTPC card currently out? Im looking to spend under $100.
Needs to be:
Passive cooled
PCIe
Nvidia as I will be running linux and ATI still has not got there shit together for linux drivers
HDMI out
I will never game on it so GPU power doesnt matter, i dont care if it cant render pong
Have spdif passthough to hdmi if it doesnt have its own audio chip
Hardware acceleration of as many formats as possible would defiantly be a bonus but i think the 2.7Ghz Dualcore 7750 BE CPU im putting in it should be ok for most things, eventually i will be going with a Athlon e series quad when i can find one in stock for a reasonable price.
Needs to be:
Passive cooled
PCIe
Nvidia as I will be running linux and ATI still has not got there shit together for linux drivers
HDMI out
I will never game on it so GPU power doesnt matter, i dont care if it cant render pong
Have spdif passthough to hdmi if it doesnt have its own audio chip
Hardware acceleration of as many formats as possible would defiantly be a bonus but i think the 2.7Ghz Dualcore 7750 BE CPU im putting in it should be ok for most things, eventually i will be going with a Athlon e series quad when i can find one in stock for a reasonable price.