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<blockquote data-quote="Tech Geek" data-source="post: 61262" data-attributes="member: 18181">Either ATi or NVidia should offer excellent quality if you stick to the latest generation and latest drivers.&nbsp; I have an ATi X1300 based card and the drivers have given me no problems since the first update.&nbsp; The drivers that shipped with it had some bugs. Also, the review link posted above favoring NVidia is an article from October... before the final ATi drivers were released.&nbsp; Later reviews you can find links for in other threads show the ATi Avivo to be better than NVidia Pure Video.&nbsp; Lower cpu use to playback video and better quality.&nbsp; Do a search... you should be able to find the links.I had difficulty with ATSC recording/playback.&nbsp; &nbsp; My passively cooled Sapphire X1300 didn't support the 10GB/sec required for Microsoft's code at the stock clock speed.&nbsp; It's the slowest clocked X1300 so I guess it's not surprising.&nbsp; Other HDTV software worked flawlessly in all ATSC formats.I found I could safely overclock the card to supply sufficient bandwidth but&nbsp; had returned the HDTV card because a defective part that came with it and haven't had a chance to replace the tuner card.&nbsp; I didn't get to test the system after adding overclocking so I don't know if that fixed the problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tech Geek, post: 61262, member: 18181"] Either ATi or NVidia should offer excellent quality if you stick to the latest generation and latest drivers. I have an ATi X1300 based card and the drivers have given me no problems since the first update. The drivers that shipped with it had some bugs. Also, the review link posted above favoring NVidia is an article from October... before the final ATi drivers were released. Later reviews you can find links for in other threads show the ATi Avivo to be better than NVidia Pure Video. Lower cpu use to playback video and better quality. Do a search... you should be able to find the links. I had difficulty with ATSC recording/playback. My passively cooled Sapphire X1300 didn't support the 10GB/sec required for Microsoft's code at the stock clock speed. It's the slowest clocked X1300 so I guess it's not surprising. Other HDTV software worked flawlessly in all ATSC formats. I found I could safely overclock the card to supply sufficient bandwidth but had returned the HDTV card because a defective part that came with it and haven't had a chance to replace the tuner card. I didn't get to test the system after adding overclocking so I don't know if that fixed the problem. [/QUOTE]

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