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<blockquote data-quote="jcee" data-source="post: 56406" data-attributes="member: 10506">Nvidia and ATIs gfx card are heavily discussed here.. As they are advertised with so many movie features like. ...hardware decoding support, Programmable Video Processor,Hardware Decode Acceleration,Provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, WMV, and MPEG-2 HD and SD videos with minimal CPU usage, Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing, High-Quality Scaling, Inverse Telecine (3:2 &amp; 2:2 Pulldown Correction)Bad Edit Correction,Video Color Correction, LCD SharpeningIntegrated SD and HDTV OutputI was thinking what is really usefull in terms of HTPC.. It all sounds great, but what is reall uesfull and/or a-must-have?!As I own a FX5200 card I was thinking of replacing it.. Low CPU utilization would be very nice to lower temps and fan noise..So what has to be selected.. One other issue is that DVI coonected to HDI is displayed in overscan on many displays (as on my plasma).. Therefore the Pixels do not get on the panel 1 by 1.Scaling and intensive adjustment options would be fine.. So what can a modern gfx card do for us HTPC guys?!&nbsp;<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />And one stupid question you please allow:Which features does my FX5200 have?Does it has hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding? Has it Purevideo?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jcee, post: 56406, member: 10506"] Nvidia and ATIs gfx card are heavily discussed here.. As they are advertised with so many movie features like. ... hardware decoding support, Programmable Video Processor, Hardware Decode Acceleration, Provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, WMV, and MPEG-2 HD and SD videos with minimal CPU usage, Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing, High-Quality Scaling, Inverse Telecine (3:2 & 2:2 Pulldown Correction) Bad Edit Correction,Video Color Correction, LCD Sharpening Integrated SD and HDTV Output I was thinking what is really usefull in terms of HTPC.. It all sounds great, but what is reall uesfull and/or a-must-have?! As I own a FX5200 card I was thinking of replacing it.. Low CPU utilization would be very nice to lower temps and fan noise.. So what has to be selected.. One other issue is that DVI coonected to HDI is displayed in overscan on many displays (as on my plasma).. Therefore the Pixels do not get on the panel 1 by 1. Scaling and intensive adjustment options would be fine.. So what can a modern gfx card do for us HTPC guys?! :D And one stupid question you please allow: Which features does my FX5200 have? Does it has hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding? Has it Purevideo? [/QUOTE]

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