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<blockquote data-quote="rsbrux" data-source="post: 821946" data-attributes="member: 49539"><p>My HD3450 doesn't seem quite able to keep up with HD. I get occasional brief hangs in the picture, as well as the problems reported <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/flickering-tv-guide-other-overlays-evr-enabled-34864/" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp; After reading various comments and reviews on this site and elsewhere (e.g. <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4380/discrete-htpc-gpus-shootout/16" target="_blank">this one</a>), the ASUS ENGT430 DC SILENT/DI/1GD3 seemed like the best choice.&nbsp; Unfortunately, although the card itself is low profile, the heat sink makes it impossible to build in to my Scaleo E (Elonex Artisan) case.&nbsp; There seem to be GT520 cards (e.g. ASUS ENGT520 SILENT/DI/1GD3(LP)), which are truly low profile and passively cooled available, but the benchmarks I have read seem to indicate that the GT520 isn't much better than my HD 3450.&nbsp; There seems to be a much wider assortment of low-profile, passively cooled graphics cards based on ATI than on nVidia, but I am focussing on nVidia instead of ATI because of the LAV support for CUDA.&nbsp; If I can't find a suitable graphic card, I would consider changing out he motherboard in my Scaleo E, but that would be a big PITA, and one geek at a local PC shop opined that none of the on-board graphics systems currently available on motherboards will deliver the performance I'm looking for.&nbsp; He suggested that I look at the nVidia Quadro 600 series, but they seem to be in another price class, and not so readily available.&nbsp; What would any of you recommend?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="rsbrux, post: 821946, member: 49539"] My HD3450 doesn't seem quite able to keep up with HD. I get occasional brief hangs in the picture, as well as the problems reported [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/flickering-tv-guide-other-overlays-evr-enabled-34864/"]here[/URL]. After reading various comments and reviews on this site and elsewhere (e.g. [URL="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4380/discrete-htpc-gpus-shootout/16"]this one[/URL]), the ASUS ENGT430 DC SILENT/DI/1GD3 seemed like the best choice. Unfortunately, although the card itself is low profile, the heat sink makes it impossible to build in to my Scaleo E (Elonex Artisan) case. There seem to be GT520 cards (e.g. ASUS ENGT520 SILENT/DI/1GD3(LP)), which are truly low profile and passively cooled available, but the benchmarks I have read seem to indicate that the GT520 isn't much better than my HD 3450. There seems to be a much wider assortment of low-profile, passively cooled graphics cards based on ATI than on nVidia, but I am focussing on nVidia instead of ATI because of the LAV support for CUDA. If I can't find a suitable graphic card, I would consider changing out he motherboard in my Scaleo E, but that would be a big PITA, and one geek at a local PC shop opined that none of the on-board graphics systems currently available on motherboards will deliver the performance I'm looking for. He suggested that I look at the nVidia Quadro 600 series, but they seem to be in another price class, and not so readily available. What would any of you recommend? [/QUOTE]

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