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<blockquote data-quote="NFW" data-source="post: 80830" data-attributes="member: 25294">I understand that this motherboard will probably be useless for video playback.&nbsp; That's OK.&nbsp; Like I said in the subject of this thread, this is an audio only system.&nbsp; I might try it one day as an experiment, but my expectations will be low and I won't complain if it doesn't work.&nbsp; So let's forget all about video playback and recording.&nbsp; It's really totally irrelevant to me and I shouldn't even have mentioned it.I have already switched the music player from WMP to &quot;DirectX&quot; which I assume will be less resource hungry.&nbsp; I have trouble believing that the problem here is related to graphics though, since all it needs to do is display song titles and lists of songs.&nbsp; Will a DX9 graphics card really make a difference here?&nbsp; Far as I can tell, it only needs to do basic bitblt stuff, which has been around since forever.&nbsp; And I could put up with visible redraws.&nbsp; But screen painting is not the problem I'm seeing.But the problem I'm seeing is a total lockup of the system when I choose a playlist or add a CD to a playlist.&nbsp; And for the latter scenario, the next screen is just a list of CDs, which MP has already demonstrated it can generate quickly enough.I really don't think that the GUI stuff could possibly be placing enough demand on the CPU to hang the system like this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NFW, post: 80830, member: 25294"] I understand that this motherboard will probably be useless for video playback. That's OK. Like I said in the subject of this thread, this is an audio only system. I might try it one day as an experiment, but my expectations will be low and I won't complain if it doesn't work. So let's forget all about video playback and recording. It's really totally irrelevant to me and I shouldn't even have mentioned it. I have already switched the music player from WMP to "DirectX" which I assume will be less resource hungry. I have trouble believing that the problem here is related to graphics though, since all it needs to do is display song titles and lists of songs. Will a DX9 graphics card really make a difference here? Far as I can tell, it only needs to do basic bitblt stuff, which has been around since forever. And I could put up with visible redraws. But screen painting is not the problem I'm seeing. But the problem I'm seeing is a total lockup of the system when I choose a playlist or add a CD to a playlist. And for the latter scenario, the next screen is just a list of CDs, which MP has already demonstrated it can generate quickly enough. I really don't think that the GUI stuff could possibly be placing enough demand on the CPU to hang the system like this. [/QUOTE]

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