tigger said:
scbs29 writted thus:
I have a box with a well used ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H that had no 32bit
Win7 drivers. All the Vista drivers were fine for it except the realtec
sound, I had to go back to the 32bit XP driver for that to work. YMMV but
Vista drivers seem to work for me. Don't expect any 64bit drivers to
work, and I didn't try any XP drivers other than realtec, which went in
but quickly needed updating from realtec themselves in order to work.
TBH it was a lot of hassle getting it up and running and it still has no
decent pci bridge driver, all the USB ports are flakey to say the least.
They appear to have no power until booted fully, so no USB boot
available, and no USB mouse to play with during CD OS installs.
I might add that Win7 on it is very good until you give it a lot to do,
then it slows up considerably. I think it just isn't up to Win7.
The S478 socket kind of dooms it. You can't run Windows 8 on
that, as nothing that fits in the socket supports NX bit. And
in terms of performance, as you note, a single core bogs down
pretty rapidly. My laptop has a single core processor, has
Windows 7 loaded, and just the action of loading 100MB packages
for a webcam and a printer, leaves enough cruft ("services")
to have a noticeable effect. The modern OSes really need more cores,
which they can consume for themselves. Leaving a core for you
to use. The best processor available, would perhaps be
a Northwood 3.4GHz FSB800 with Hyperthreading. And it would
still run Windows 7 like my laptop does.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/P4VM890 R2.0/?cat=CPU
What could help a tiny bit, is using an SSD for the boot drive.
But when your AV starts, or the system is indexing, it's gonna
be slow. Just like my laptop.
*******
The Conexant CX2388x is kinda strange, in that it's as much
a job for an application as for a driver. I use DScaler
for my BT878 and I've recorded movies from the VCR with it.
The original Hauppauge software worked, but I stopped
following that source.
In the DScaler forums, I see chips other than BT8x8 getting
honorable mention. So this is a possibility for recording.
http://www.dscaler.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=26990
They have a supported-card list.
http://www.dscaler.net/card-support/index.htm
The available info on cx23880, 881, 882, 883, says it is
similar to the BT878. The DScaler application I use, is
probably not under active development this late in the game.
So while DScaler (Windows application) may have started life,
based on the BTTV Linux drivers, it's a good question how many others
it supports. The card-support page would have been
a good place to list the supported chips, rather than
guess at them.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Conexant_CX2388x
OK, I checked my install folder (and I'm not running
the latest version), and this file is present:
cx2388xCards.ini
[Conexant CX23880 TV/FM EVK]
[Conexant CX23880 TV/FM EVK (PAL)]
[Holo 3d Graph]
[PixelView XCapture]
[MSI TV@nywhere (NTSC)]
[MSI TV@nywhere (PAL)]
[Asus TV Tuner 880 (NTSC)]
[Prolink PlayTV HD]
[Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models]
[PixelView XCapture With PDI Mod]
[Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert (Pal)]
So there is hope. Maybe that file is larger now.
The downloaded application, uses INNO installer,
so it's difficult to review the files before
installing the application. I normally use WINE
for that (in a Linux VM), to be on the safe side.
WINE allows me to run an installer long enough, to
get at the files for a look.
Paul
