Another GFX card thread.

Looking for an AGP card (hens teeth spring to mind) that will do h264
acceleration so I can do dvb-t on it in the imminent future.

Any exist? Seems that only pci-e ones do it and I dont want to upgrade
the whole media center just right now.

 

http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Sapphire_Radeon_X1950_Pro/

Video Acceleration of: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264

Plenty to choose from here:

http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_9874.html

 

He did say AGP.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=958&pageID=2530

Available in NZ from about $280. http://www.extremepc.co.nz/index.php?
main_page=product_info&products_id=2741

HTH

 

The PriceSpy link is for AGP cards!

I read a comparison recently of the video playback performance of
NVidia vs ATI Radeon. Under Vista they were about equal but they said
under XP the NVidia post processing video enhancement filters didn't
work.

 

You could not even give me a ATI's card, there drivers are totally useless and do not get updated
very often.

 

I think you will find that Nvidia leaves all others for dead..

 

So? If they work then leave it the hell alone is how I operate when it
comes to drivers. All my problems with bluescreens have being video
driver related (except for hardware problems)

 

You do not seem to have a clue, must of the updates are for Games and other compatible problems..

Go Do some reading about Driver updates.


Try here

http://downloads.guru3d.com/

 

Oh I'm sorry, I have better things to do with my time then fixing PC
problems so I can play games. The last driver upgrade I did made things
go all seethru when I rotated things in solidworks and was a total bitch
to undo.

 

How often do you think they should be updated? I have been using the
same driver on my Radeon for a few years without problem.

 

In what respect? What cards, compared to what? The new Radeon HD
3870 is a very good card at its price and the HD 3870 X2 is currently
the fastest card you can get. The HD 3850 mops the floor with the
NVidia 8600 it competes against.

If I were building a Home Theatre PC I would select the Sapphire HD
3850 with heatpipe cooling. Radeons have long been leaders in video
playback.

 

Good advice is to leave the drivers alone if there is nothing wrong
with them. Only update if there is a problem. 'If it ain't broke,
don't fix it".

 

Something similar here. I got a later driver, Omega tweaked drivers
supposed to be better but video playback was a disaster. That taught
me. Even after manually digging out every trace of the tweaked
driver I couldn't get it to work properly with DVD playback,
eventually resorting to restoring a partition backup.

 

Interesting article here comparing ATI and NVidia video processing,
under Vista though * : http://www.guru3d.com/article/article/443/
ATI still have the edge, with their Unified Video Decoder.

According to Sapphire, http://www.guru3d.com/article/article/443/ the
HD 2600 is available in AGP.

* I read somewhere the NVidia post processing video enhancement
filters don't work under XP, just Vista.

 

Then it seem you have very little computer Knowledge, there are lots of Tool to remove driver
problems, and Update do fix problem but then again you would not know that..

 

What a load of Bloody Crap, So you case will get very hot with those type of Cooling..

So Please do some Reading ATI card are far to slow have lost the market and Nvidia leads them all,
time me thinks you do need to do some reading and take those Blinkers off.

 

More Crap advice, you are asking for problems..


Plus new Drivers have New or better Features..

 

You are Using illegal drivers, so you blame the Drivers, what a utter Dork you are..

 

No Reference made about XP performance..


AS I thought they used Very Old Nvidia drivers.

Stacks of Nvidia cards have AGP but are not sold here at all.

And what 2 year old driver are you referring to...?

As I thought very Old driver NVIDIA ForceWare 158.45 we are now upto 171.16 Beta.

 

Depends on how old the MC is....from experience its little more to
upgrade to PCI-e and get a video cards as the AGP ones are usually $100
ish more than their pci-e brothers and you can flog the agp motherboard
on trademe...

regards

Thing