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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:05 AM, DaveD <<a href="mailto:mythtv@guiplot.com">mythtv@guiplot.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">What I like best about my 5200 is that it runs the legacy drivers which<br>GREATLY reduces CPU load during playback of HD content AND provides the<br>
video overlay, which gives brightness/contrast control. Unfortunately,<br>my new MB is PCIE and there's no PCIE version of the 5200 (sob). But my<br>wife's computer benefits from my old 5200, though....<br></blockquote>
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<div>Well I got a 6800XT cheaply, the XT version has fewer pixel pipes but uses the same processor as the 6800 series, well since processing video is really a 2D application pixel pipes arent required, but is an excellent HD capable card, HD content (1080i) only drives my processor at about 20% cpu usage </div>
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<div>but for AGP at HD Level the cheapest AGP card 5200 or greater would work great, PCI works okay at SD but doesnt seem to have enough bandwidth for HD.</div></div>