[mythtv-users] Will nvidia 7600GS reduce CPU load over 6200 (both AGP) in an older, underpowered machine?

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Robin Hill wrote at about 15:21:48 +0000 on Tuesday, December 9, 2008:
 > On Tue Dec 09, 2008 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > 
 > > Would a 7600GS AGP card enable further offloading of CPU usage or will
 > > it have limited to no effect in mythtv? 
 > > (note I have no interest in 3D gaming)
 > > 
 > > Would any other (< $100) card be likely to help me extend the life of
 > > this older machine?
 > > 
 > I doubt it'll help, no.  Anything that can be is offloaded to XvMC, the
 > rest has to be done by the CPU.  Updating the graphics card won't affect
 > what can be offloaded.  The VDPAU work currently in SVN will certainly
 > help though - this will offload more of the processing and should reduce
 > the CPU load right down.  This is highly unlikely to be backported
 > though so you'll have to either switch to SVN or wait for the 0.22
 > release.
 > 
 > As for other cards - Nvidia are currently the only (non built-in) cards
 > with any offloading at all, so anything else will use more CPU, not
 > less.
 > 
Thanks that's what I thought.
But since I have AGP and since I'm not crazy about using a regular PCI
slot for video, it sounds like I need to start thinking of upgrading
motherboard and CPU...