[mythtv-users] horizontal split

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is no room beside the graphics card, a tuner card resides there.
>
> And you can't move it?
>
>> Is it necessary to limit the bits of the card to the bits of the
>> system (64)
>
> No.  The word size on the CPU is not in any way connected to the bus
> width on the card.
>
>> or would using a 128 bit card eliminate the
>> "bottlenecking" referenced in the reviews?
>
> For video playback of mpeg2/mpeg4 content, I don't think you'd see any
> difference at all.  That kind of bandwidth would only be used for 3D
> gaming.
>
> Eric
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Mobo has only one PCIex1 slot, I could REmove the tuner, obviously not
an option.

Back to the original question... I'm using a MSI Radeon HD 5450 and
getting some tearing when the camera pans.
would upgrading to the card mentioned above reduce that tearing at all?