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Josh @ Nov 22nd 2005 7:22PM
The ATI HDTV Wonder has an SD tuner built in. But you can't use both the HD tuner and the SD tuner at the same time, which is a requirement that Media Center has. So using the standard drivers only gives you access to the HD tuner. The Kram drivers makes MCE think that the SD tuner on the HDTV Wonder is an eHome Wonder SD tuner, and seperate from the HD tuner. Of course, if you try to record in HD and SD at the same time, you would be in trouble. But people who use the Kram drivers generally don't even want to record SD. If you did, you would buy a tuner better than a crappy software ehome wonder. :-)
The HDTV Wonder only serves to stream MPEG2 video from the antenna into the computer. Media Center then records the stream straight to the hard drive. There is no encoding involved. And playback is purely a function of the MPEG2 decoder and the video card. So, really, the ATI HDTV Wonder and the NVidia 6600GT don't even interact at all! There is no issue with compatibility at all.
The Socket 754 3000+ performed perfectly. However, I ended up with a good opportunity to build a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 system, and I did so. The AMD has been replaced. The ASUS P5LD2 motherboard/P4 that I have now seems to do a better job at going into and out of S3 sleep mode. The AMD took longer to resume and go to sleep. The nice thing about Media Center is that the recording task runs as a service. It will wake your PC up from S3 or hibernation mode about 5 minutes before a recording is set to start. After the recording is done, it will go right back to sleep!