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> Of course, if other setups are anything like mine, the GPUs found on dedicated backends will be completely different chipsets than those used on standalone frontends... I would guess Intel mostly as that's what tends to be on mobos.<br>
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> Mike Perkins</p>
<p>That's true but a lot of people also run a combined BE/FE. Also a cheap gpu to be used for transcoding only may be a decent upgrade path to those using older hardware for the BE. If your mobo is already running the fastest CPU possible then its best to save that for the main BE functions and off load the transcode jobs to a gpu.</p>
<p>Chris <br>
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