[mythtv-users] VDPAU PCI card effectiveness?

sonofzev at iinet.net.au sonofzev at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 1 07:05:31 UTC 2009



On Tue Sep  1 15:01 , "sonofzev at iinet.net.au"  sent:

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>On Tue Sep  1 16:14 , Jean-Yves Avenard  sent:
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>>Hi
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>>2009/9/1 sonofzev at iinet.net.au sonofzev at iinet.net.au>:
>>> 8400GS...  both CPU's sit at 1000Mhz even during HD playback.
>>
>>Surprising.
>>
>>Most people have noticed that anything below 1.7GHz would slow down
>>the databus too much to feed the video streamfast enough to the nvidia
>>card.
>>That's on AMD only, as with Intel do not slow down the databus when
>>you lower the core frequency
>>)
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>I saw that.. . I actually did try to set a minimum of 1.8GHz to see if there was
>a difference and the only thing noticeable was a heat increase.. I seem to recall
>someone mentioning that only affected IGP's not discrete cards..  
>

I'm thinking maybe this difference doesn't impact older socket 939 motherboards
such as mine, but only AM2 - AM3?




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