2008-01-13, 10:42 PM
hasso Wrote:So, do you think there's any chance of using one of these with my ageing system (AMD XP2800+) to get NZ DVB-T (non-choppy) playback or is it time to upgrade (sigh).I dont know - maybe. That was certainly my theory when upgrading the video card in my 2.8GHz P4 AGP machine. The drivers on these cards a pretty flakey though, so I dont think I'd give them the big thumbs up recommendation.
If you're lucky, and dont experience serious problems getting the videocard drivers installed and working, then it should make your machine able to playback the new highdef DVB-T signals without struggling.
Unfortunately there is no alternative to these cards when it comes to AGP. There is no nvidia AGP card that will give you H.264 acceleration.
Quote:I would assume that my present AGP card with the XP2800+ processor isn't going to cut it.Correct. No chance. My AMD X2 4400+ processor in another machine wasnt able to smoothly decode these channels - it was using a near constant %95-100 CPU across both cores.
The faster intel core 2 duo processors fare a little better, with my E6550 machine giving about %75 CPU usage when using software decoding of these channels.