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<blockquote data-quote="Elf" data-source="post: 57680" data-attributes="member: 13103">After a *lot* of &quot;clarting&quot; (my wife's choice of words) with resolutions, codecs, tv-outs, you-name-it, I finally used some birthday cash to buy a GeForce 6200 card (to replace my old GF4 MX) and a copy of the Purevideo decoder, and I have to say Wow! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> To anyone experiencing the &quot;looking at the TV through cotton wool&quot; effect like I was, this (for me at least) has been the best thing I have ever done - super crisp and smooth picture in MyTV, easily as good if not better than anything I was previously getting from my Sky STB.On the back of the elation of discovering a whole new life to MediaPortal, the Gods of evening-things-out stuck a hand in and my system (an AOpen XCube EA65II barebones) bluescreened followed very closely (too quickly to read the bluescreen) by a hard reset.&nbsp; After a reboot it went on to do this every ten minutes or so (after an initial 3 hour stint with no problems) leading me to wonder if overheating was the cause&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":cry:" title="Crying&nbsp; &nbsp; :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" /> .&nbsp; As an SFF case, the components aren't half crammed in there, and the GeForce card only has a heatsink which sites quite close to the CPU cooler..&nbsp; Certainly when I passed my hand around the back of the machine it was fairly toasty.I need to confirm that overheating is the problem, but it looks fairly conclusive - anybody have any thoughts on how I might keep the heat down, given that the nature of the case is such that I can't put in any more fans and buying a GeForce with a fan isn't really an option?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf, post: 57680, member: 13103"] After a *lot* of "clarting" (my wife's choice of words) with resolutions, codecs, tv-outs, you-name-it, I finally used some birthday cash to buy a GeForce 6200 card (to replace my old GF4 MX) and a copy of the Purevideo decoder, and I have to say Wow! :D To anyone experiencing the "looking at the TV through cotton wool" effect like I was, this (for me at least) has been the best thing I have ever done - super crisp and smooth picture in MyTV, easily as good if not better than anything I was previously getting from my Sky STB. On the back of the elation of discovering a whole new life to MediaPortal, the Gods of evening-things-out stuck a hand in and my system (an AOpen XCube EA65II barebones) bluescreened followed very closely (too quickly to read the bluescreen) by a hard reset. After a reboot it went on to do this every ten minutes or so (after an initial 3 hour stint with no problems) leading me to wonder if overheating was the cause :cry: . As an SFF case, the components aren't half crammed in there, and the GeForce card only has a heatsink which sites quite close to the CPU cooler.. Certainly when I passed my hand around the back of the machine it was fairly toasty. I need to confirm that overheating is the problem, but it looks fairly conclusive - anybody have any thoughts on how I might keep the heat down, given that the nature of the case is such that I can't put in any more fans and buying a GeForce with a fan isn't really an option? [/QUOTE]

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