<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:14 AM, William Powers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wepprop@gmail.com" target="_blank">wepprop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Jun 20, 2012, at 7:00 AM, Gerald Brandt <<a href="mailto:gbr@majentis.com">gbr@majentis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm looking to replace my low-profile (with fan) GT-430 with another low-profile fanless card. I haven't been able to find one. Any ideas?<br>
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</div>Fanless low profile NVidia cards that support VDPAU will not support Advanced,2X deinterlacing - you'll have to use Temporal,2X. If you go that route, I recommend a GT520.<br>
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If you discover a low profile card with a quiet and long lived fan that supports flawless playback using Advanced,2X deinterlacing, please let me know. I already know that GT430's don't give me flawless playback and the fan on my GT220 died a loud death after about two months.<br>
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The other low profile alternative is OpenGL playback with AMD or Intel Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge CPU graphics. I have had good luck with the Sandy Bridge solution and have converted two of my three frontends to that playback method.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>GT640's are just starting to become available as desktop cards - they're based on chips intended for laptop usage, so I expect a low-profile version will be along shortly. They should be ~40% faster than GT440's (which are basically just factory overclocked GT430's) which would make them strong contenders as HTPC cards if a fanless version shows up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Chris</div></div>