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| 677493 | 2008-06-11 04:32:00 | I am having trouble with playback of HD movies. They are freezing/frozen while the audio comes through fine. I am guessing my video card is the problem as it is about 3 years old now. It is a gforce with 256mb. If I need to upgrade I would like to spend up to a max of $200.00. I was thinking an ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB or a GeForce 7600 GS 512MB. I would also like to output to tv. I have an Asus A8NE with AMD socket 939 and 1gb and would like to keep this for the time being. The mb supports all PCIE up to x16 Any suggestions would be great. Cheers |
nodrog (7115) | ||
| 677494 | 2008-06-11 06:19:00 | I had same problem not long ago and ended up buying a new pc. You might find that even if you upgrade your graphics card it still freezes or lags(slow motion while audio plays fine). HD playback takes up quite a bit of cpu usage and if cpu is not fast enough it could cause a problem as well. I started with video card upgrade then CPU, but to do so I had to upgrade motherboard and memory(whole new pc, eh?) |
kevin7904 (13772) | ||
| 677495 | 2008-06-11 06:32:00 | What software are you using to play the HD videos? I would go for an Nvidia 8600GT or similar as they have better intelaced HD playback than ATI. You need software like PowerCinema I think to enable the hardware decoding on the graphics card and take the load of the CPU. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 677496 | 2008-06-11 06:35:00 | thanks for that Cyabro | nodrog (7115) | ||
| 677497 | 2008-06-11 21:53:00 | Yep, HD movies will eat your CPU. My old Athlon 3000 will only just play 720p clips, but anything over that is a slideshow. My Core2Duo easily copes though. As CYaBro said, get an nVidia 8xxx series card - 8600GT is a good choice as it's cheap and you'll need WinDVD, PowerDVD or something similar to offload the movie processing to the graphics card. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 677498 | 2008-06-11 23:16:00 | I have been doing a little searching on pricespy and thought either an 8500gt with 1gb or an 8600 with 512mb. I have only been using media player. |
nodrog (7115) | ||
| 677499 | 2008-06-12 21:45:00 | I have been doing a little searching on pricespy and thought either an 8500gt with 1gb or an 8600 with 512mb. I have only been using media player. 512MB max is waaay more than enough for those cards. If you can get a 256MB 8500GT that should be ok. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 677500 | 2008-06-12 22:19:00 | Where are the HD movies from? Are they from a BluRay player or something you recorded? | Bantu (52) | ||
| 677501 | 2008-06-12 22:33:00 | you should post your system specs so we don't waste your time reccomending stuff that won't work. For myself setting up freeview terrestrial I use a silent ASUS 8500GT with a X2 3800+ cpu and TV3 @ 1080i uses about 5% CPU, with onboard 7050PV graphics it wasn't smooth and used 80% or more CPU and testing with a 7600GT gave me around 40-50%. The 720P TV2 uses was fine on all 3 cards, I wish TV3 would use it as well. I use power DVD 7 Ultra for the codec & DVB-Viewer for the viewing. It is important to make sure whatever codec or application you use supports the hardware acceleration of your chosen graphics cards. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 677502 | 2008-06-13 04:39:00 | Sorry. I have an A8ne with athlon 3000 and 1gb RAM. I use powerdvd | nodrog (7115) | ||
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