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<blockquote data-quote="Spif" data-source="post: 75220" data-attributes="member: 17833">Hi.I don't have any experience with your motherboard but something seems wrong. You have a very capable HTPC and should not have any performance problems.The best codec with regard to CPU usage is in my opinion Nvidia Purevideo. You should download the trial version and give it a try. Be sure to enable hardware acceleration (dxva). I am using Purevideo on one of my systems with great success.The other thing to do is the usual. Upgrade motherboard BIOS to the latest. Be sure to have all windows patches installed, upgrade to the latest drivers, etc.In your case you could also check that DMA is turned on for your harddrive and that you don't have any IRQ-conflicts. You could also use the PCI Latency tool to set the latency on your graphics card to 32 or 64. It is most likely set to 128 by default. Setting it to a lower value may make your system more responsive.Good luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spif, post: 75220, member: 17833"] Hi. I don't have any experience with your motherboard but something seems wrong. You have a very capable HTPC and should not have any performance problems. The best codec with regard to CPU usage is in my opinion Nvidia Purevideo. You should download the trial version and give it a try. Be sure to enable hardware acceleration (dxva). I am using Purevideo on one of my systems with great success. The other thing to do is the usual. Upgrade motherboard BIOS to the latest. Be sure to have all windows patches installed, upgrade to the latest drivers, etc. In your case you could also check that DMA is turned on for your harddrive and that you don't have any IRQ-conflicts. You could also use the PCI Latency tool to set the latency on your graphics card to 32 or 64. It is most likely set to 128 by default. Setting it to a lower value may make your system more responsive. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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