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<blockquote data-quote="joele" data-source="post: 1015760" data-attributes="member: 143002">I have an i3 3225 (with HD4000) and it is a great CPU, very impressive, even the dolphin emulator which is very CPU intensive works fine (though that is on another machine, was so impressed for the price I bought a second)... The HD4000 however is garbage, for me anyway.. It is actually reletively powerful overall probably equal to better than the $35 HD6450 I replaced it with, my machine also has 1600mhz DDR3 Corsair vantage 2x4GB, windows ultimate 7 64bit and Sandisk Extreme III SSD...&nbsp;The problem with the HD4000 is inconsistant performace in video playback, some videos (depending on bitrate and fps) I just really struggle to get playback not stuttering or if not stuttering then not in sync.. Core AV codec gives smooth playback but out of sync with audio by 2 seconds on some high bitrate H.264. lol, MS codec works the best on those intensive videos, but slight stutter and LAV is terrible even with hardware acceleration.. The cheap HD6450 is better with LAV with hardware acceleration but not perfect, MS codec is worse than the HD4000 but with CoreAV codec it is absolutely perfect, not bad for AUD$35 card and $9 codec... I am sure I could tweak more but not stuffing around as even is fine even side-by-side 1080p 3d which is actually 3840x1080...&nbsp;I did read some people having success with the HD4000 and many having stuttering issues like I was having, so for $35 extra it just wasn't worth the headache, for me..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joele, post: 1015760, member: 143002"] I have an i3 3225 (with HD4000) and it is a great CPU, very impressive, even the dolphin emulator which is very CPU intensive works fine (though that is on another machine, was so impressed for the price I bought a second)... The HD4000 however is garbage, for me anyway.. It is actually reletively powerful overall probably equal to better than the $35 HD6450 I replaced it with, my machine also has 1600mhz DDR3 Corsair vantage 2x4GB, windows ultimate 7 64bit and Sandisk Extreme III SSD... The problem with the HD4000 is inconsistant performace in video playback, some videos (depending on bitrate and fps) I just really struggle to get playback not stuttering or if not stuttering then not in sync.. Core AV codec gives smooth playback but out of sync with audio by 2 seconds on some high bitrate H.264. lol, MS codec works the best on those intensive videos, but slight stutter and LAV is terrible even with hardware acceleration.. The cheap HD6450 is better with LAV with hardware acceleration but not perfect, MS codec is worse than the HD4000 but with CoreAV codec it is absolutely perfect, not bad for AUD$35 card and $9 codec... I am sure I could tweak more but not stuffing around as even is fine even side-by-side 1080p 3d which is actually 3840x1080... I did read some people having success with the HD4000 and many having stuttering issues like I was having, so for $35 extra it just wasn't worth the headache, for me.. [/QUOTE]

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