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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Realtime priority and extra audio buffering should only help in situations like this... though I would wager that the realtime option isn't actually doing anything, unless you made the prerequisite changes in the OS.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is your video card plugged into a full x16 slot, I know some motherboards have slots that look like x16 but are really only x4. I doubt it's the issue but perhaps Blueray needs that extra bandwidth.</div>
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My question: Is my setup just too slow to handle the BluRay bitrate I'm trying to put through my machine? Is it time for me to build a new front end machine? Or is there something else I'm missing? Should I ditch the GT430 and get a 520? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!</div>
</blockquote></div></div><div><br></div>GT520 is a step down from the GT430... you don't want to do that. (
<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4268/nvidia-releases-geforce-gt-520" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/show/4268/nvidia-releases-geforce-gt-520</a>)<div><div><br></div><div>It really sounds like your issue is with bandwidth somewhere between the source files and the video card. The GT430 should handle all of the heavy lifting so long as you get the content to it fast enough.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The Dell says 16x (16.1) next to the PCIe port. This makes me think it's PCIe v1. The chipset is a Intel® Q43 Express Chipset w/ICH10D. The card is a 2.0 card (Zotac GT430) with 1GB of RAM. It's just full BluRay rips that are having this issue. I'm wondering if the chipset just doesn't have the bandwidth. I'm not really wanting to spend $700 on a good IvyBridge setup...</div>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>16x PCIe 1.0 should be plenty fast enough.</div><div><br></div><div>I did see some comments in one of the other threads mentioned above that suggested that heat may be an issue. Apparently the cards will clock down when they get hot. Because you seemed to suggest at one point that the issue appeared resolved, then came back after an hour of use, you might just check to see how hot the card is getting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck on this one.</div></div>