Hauppauge 250 and Athlons?

[mjl12866]

I am using the Hauppauge 250 with an ASUS motherboard and a P4 1.8 845 chipset based on the manufacturer's recommendation. The chipset problems and IRQ problems and audio sync problems that people have complained about do not exist with this motherboard combo.

However, I find my P4 alarmingly slow and prefer AMD CPU's. What experience has anyone had getting the Hauppauge 250 working with Athlon motherboards? What chipset has worked well? I got the card to playback on an ALi motherboard but not on a VIA based motherboard. Please post what other motherboards have worked with this card.

Does anyone know if an Athlon XP 1.8 is faster than a P4 1.8? I was told that the P4 is better at floating point operations. I am not sure if this really relevant because the 250 does the encoding on the card and then I burn directly to DVD.

[q1aqza]

I had my PVR250 working fine with my 1.4 Athlon and an Elite mobo. I've since upgraded to an XP2400 and an NForce2 chipset mobo but I haven't done any recording with it yet to see if it is still working fine.

[Beavis]

I've run a pvr 250 on a 400 mhz AMD chip with an ALI-based MB. Realtime playback coming directly from the card's encoder was a little choppy, but disk recordings were flawless and it made great SVCD's on this machine. The CPU speed matters if you start wanting to use it's pausing / PVR / etc. functions- but the AMD should be fine, and 1.8gig is probably overkill even. Don't forget the forums at shspvr.com for info in addition to here.