Christian Frisson: > > Hi, > I've got a one-year-old Shuttle SB51G, loaded with a Terratec EWX 24/96 > "ice1712" soundcard and a Gygabyte Radeon 9000 Pro 128 MB video card (just for > the facts...), running Fedora Core 1 / Planet CCRMA successfully. Getting circa > 11 ms of latency with Jack set (untweaked) at 256 frames per period and 2 > periods per buffer. > > While adding an PCI soundcard seems quite natural to make music on these boxes, > why not add a RAM-loaded AGP video card too then? > I wouldn't do that, I think. It just adds heat, and that box makes horrible noise when heated. At least mine does. The built in graphic card and soundcard works just great. > My tip: don't go for the hypest nForce2 models of the Shuttle series, buy a > cheaper (or older) one, whose chipsets are known compliant with Linux, disable > the video chipset, and invest the gained price difference on an entry 3D video > card with built-in RAM! > No, nforce2 is well supported in linux now. I don't know about nforce3... --
