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Originally Posted by Paranoid Delusion  I would cut back slightly on the processor and up the card to a 8600 as it has better purevideo support with hardware acceleration. |
I thought the 8500 had the same purevideo acceleration as the 8600?
In any case, if you're intending on using ffdshow, the hardware acceleration features of any card is academic really... because it's not going to be used.