[NVIDIA] Gainward GeForce GT 210 insted of HD4550 (2 Viewers)

[midasxxl]

Does anyone have a GT 210 passiv productive in his HTPC ?
I play to replace my HD4550 because i have enough of problems with Profile 5.1 encoded mkv's.

 

[Spragleknas]

According to your system specs, your using XP. If you are using HDMI (you failed to complete your system specs), I think you'll have problems with 5.1 regardless of gfx.

Migh be with ATi only, so someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Also a lot of the nvidia features are only supported in Vista\Windows 7 sadly, and if I was going to get a new card would at least get the 220, as the extra features, ie directcompute etc are worth having.

 

[midasxxl]

AW: Gainward GeForce GT 210 insted of HD4550

Hello,
I completed my system specs, i am only usin DVI-D. THe GT 220 is not an option for me, because it's too difficult to get it silent or passiv cooled.
What about directcompute is there any advantage concerning Mediaportal ?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

directcompute was a must for me, as I rip movies to HDD and transcode the video down a wee bit to 6gb filesize

Think that the 220 supports more video file formats for dxva than the 210 from some of the reviews on the 2 chips, also the 220 is 128bit against the 64bit for the 210, so significantly faster, certainly more ideal for running a directx program like MP

All the passive 220's are due in the shops shortly, a few have been reviewed already, so lets hope its sooner than later.

 

[Owlsroost]

Also the G210 can't do Pixel Adaptive deinterlacing for HD material (if that's important to you).

Tony