Hi!
I had an 8600gt Video card in my pvr for the longest time and it was ok but the final straw on this card was when the fan started making noises which drove me bonkers one day and I opened the case and removed the heatsink and fan to clean the fan and broke the cheap plastic pin that holds the heatsink to the board.
Without the heatsink firmly in place the gpu will no doubt burn up so that was a huge mistake.
So as I threw the flipping video card on the ground in pure anger thinking I have no pvr until I get a new card I entered my motherboard model into google and realized my motherboard has on board video. (p5lmx)
No HDMI but it is directx 9.0. I loaded the drivers and started pvrx2 and was amazed at the picture quality of High Def Survivor. The picture was at 1450x1080 I believe and was for sure interlaced because I remember seeing the lins sometimes on pannings but the picture was soo sharp like I was in overlay mode or something...
anyway the audio would drift at times so I grabbed another computer that had an ati4200 pro card (correction... it was a 2400 pro) and put that in the pvr and man the picture sucked. You could see bad pixellation on the walls and faces and everything stationary had blotches of moving pixels... Annoying as hell.
After trying many different modes I ditched the card and went back to the GMA950 on board video since the quality was amazing even beating the 8600gt.
Well too my surprise now the gma950 was de-interlacing the pictures and the sharpness of the video is lost again and after days of trying every option and codec I could never recreate the non interlaced overlay picture quality.
I have been reading reviews on the HD5450 Video card I am seriously thinking of getting on for $54.99 cdn.
Reviews:
ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Graphics Cards
Radeon HD 5450 (Cedar) review: The ideal HTPC DirectX 11 graphics card?
Some reviews stated the card could not do some important de-interlacing however the problem was a driver issue that has since been corrected.
Does anyone here have the card or are thinking of getting one and have some opinions or what to get?
Does the card work nice with the HDPVR h.264 files?
Thanks for any input
I had an 8600gt Video card in my pvr for the longest time and it was ok but the final straw on this card was when the fan started making noises which drove me bonkers one day and I opened the case and removed the heatsink and fan to clean the fan and broke the cheap plastic pin that holds the heatsink to the board.
Without the heatsink firmly in place the gpu will no doubt burn up so that was a huge mistake.
So as I threw the flipping video card on the ground in pure anger thinking I have no pvr until I get a new card I entered my motherboard model into google and realized my motherboard has on board video. (p5lmx)
No HDMI but it is directx 9.0. I loaded the drivers and started pvrx2 and was amazed at the picture quality of High Def Survivor. The picture was at 1450x1080 I believe and was for sure interlaced because I remember seeing the lins sometimes on pannings but the picture was soo sharp like I was in overlay mode or something...
anyway the audio would drift at times so I grabbed another computer that had an ati4200 pro card (correction... it was a 2400 pro) and put that in the pvr and man the picture sucked. You could see bad pixellation on the walls and faces and everything stationary had blotches of moving pixels... Annoying as hell.
After trying many different modes I ditched the card and went back to the GMA950 on board video since the quality was amazing even beating the 8600gt.
Well too my surprise now the gma950 was de-interlacing the pictures and the sharpness of the video is lost again and after days of trying every option and codec I could never recreate the non interlaced overlay picture quality.
I have been reading reviews on the HD5450 Video card I am seriously thinking of getting on for $54.99 cdn.
Reviews:
ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Graphics Cards
Radeon HD 5450 (Cedar) review: The ideal HTPC DirectX 11 graphics card?
Some reviews stated the card could not do some important de-interlacing however the problem was a driver issue that has since been corrected.
Does anyone here have the card or are thinking of getting one and have some opinions or what to get?
Does the card work nice with the HDPVR h.264 files?
Thanks for any input
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