[mythtv-users] horizontal split

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Sat Nov 23 17:23:00 UTC 2013


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no room beside the graphics card, a tuner card resides there.

And you can't move it?

> Is it necessary to limit the bits of the card to the bits of the
> system (64)

No.  The word size on the CPU is not in any way connected to the bus
width on the card.

> or would using a 128 bit card eliminate the
> "bottlenecking" referenced in the reviews?

For video playback of mpeg2/mpeg4 content, I don't think you'd see any
difference at all.  That kind of bandwidth would only be used for 3D
gaming.

Eric


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