2010-03-21, 12:59 AM
Well I bought the " Powercolor Radeon HD 5450 650MHZ 512MB 1.3GHZ DDR3 HDMI DVI VGA DIRECTX11 PCI-E Video Card" $54.99
I could have bought the ATI 5570 for about $100 but couldn't justify the purchase since I bought an ATI 4770 last year for $120 for my main rig and that was to replace the slight;y slower 8800gt 1gig card I had which I paid $180. The 5570 is much slower than the 4770 and the 5450's price of $54.99 gave me enough to guy a 1.5tb hard drive.
I decided I would install Windows 7 demo on the new hard drive and start from scratch and see what happens and was bummed that my remote software would not work under windows 7 so that was a block for me right there. I need to access the pvr from my other computer so I can ctrl shift delete when something crashes lol...
anyway I tried to play some hdpvr files things looked choppy so I installed tme 3 and things looked choppy but could have been something with the maxvista software I had to use to control the box remotely. So I decided to install gbpvr and it looked like it was installing then it stopped and started to roll back and then it started to install and then it started to roll back like a yo-yo lol so after about 10 minutes of the "yo-yo-yinging" I turned the box off and booted into the old drive with XP and began to install drivers for the card and continue from there...
Everything installed fine and I loaded TME 03 and enabled hardware decoder and checked the info and it says hardware 1.0
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With my nvidia I could never get a reading on hardware decoder no matter what I did and I discovered on another forum that the only way to get hardware H264 decoding on my 8600gt is to install purevision HD and I guess you have to buy that extra. After installing that I finally had hardware 1.0 in TME for that card but I dumped it a couple days later for the fan noise problem.
I gave away my 8800gt to my brother after I bought the 4770 and regret that as I could have sure used that one...
anyway I the 5450 running sweet on xp and gbpvr and have no problems to report. Some say the card is underpowered but I can tell you that for me and the settings I use it is running like a beast on all HDTV content and at 1920x1080 hdmi res to monitor.
In avivo video and select
Bright white
Dynamic Range
Vector Adaptive
Pulldown Detection
De-noise 64%
Edge Enhancement 100%
Enable dynamic contrast
Enforce smooth video playback
And the picture looks great and runs fine from the HDPVR .ts files
Vector Adaptive de-interlacing is something I never had before on my cards and it is simply awesome.
You can read a huge post about it here and what it does:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1157287
I'm glad ATI released such a cheap video card for htpc's as the only other alternative is to buy a much more expensive gaming card.
I could have bought the ATI 5570 for about $100 but couldn't justify the purchase since I bought an ATI 4770 last year for $120 for my main rig and that was to replace the slight;y slower 8800gt 1gig card I had which I paid $180. The 5570 is much slower than the 4770 and the 5450's price of $54.99 gave me enough to guy a 1.5tb hard drive.
I decided I would install Windows 7 demo on the new hard drive and start from scratch and see what happens and was bummed that my remote software would not work under windows 7 so that was a block for me right there. I need to access the pvr from my other computer so I can ctrl shift delete when something crashes lol...
anyway I tried to play some hdpvr files things looked choppy so I installed tme 3 and things looked choppy but could have been something with the maxvista software I had to use to control the box remotely. So I decided to install gbpvr and it looked like it was installing then it stopped and started to roll back and then it started to install and then it started to roll back like a yo-yo lol so after about 10 minutes of the "yo-yo-yinging" I turned the box off and booted into the old drive with XP and began to install drivers for the card and continue from there...
Everything installed fine and I loaded TME 03 and enabled hardware decoder and checked the info and it says hardware 1.0
.With my nvidia I could never get a reading on hardware decoder no matter what I did and I discovered on another forum that the only way to get hardware H264 decoding on my 8600gt is to install purevision HD and I guess you have to buy that extra. After installing that I finally had hardware 1.0 in TME for that card but I dumped it a couple days later for the fan noise problem.
I gave away my 8800gt to my brother after I bought the 4770 and regret that as I could have sure used that one...
anyway I the 5450 running sweet on xp and gbpvr and have no problems to report. Some say the card is underpowered but I can tell you that for me and the settings I use it is running like a beast on all HDTV content and at 1920x1080 hdmi res to monitor.
In avivo video and select
Bright white
Dynamic Range
Vector Adaptive
Pulldown Detection
De-noise 64%
Edge Enhancement 100%
Enable dynamic contrast
Enforce smooth video playback
And the picture looks great and runs fine from the HDPVR .ts files
Vector Adaptive de-interlacing is something I never had before on my cards and it is simply awesome.
You can read a huge post about it here and what it does:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1157287
I'm glad ATI released such a cheap video card for htpc's as the only other alternative is to buy a much more expensive gaming card.
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