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<blockquote data-quote="FantaXP7" data-source="post: 472299" data-attributes="member: 88166">Don't know if you have already gone ahead and purchased a card, but one thing to consider is the audio over HDMI factor between the cards. Not sure what you are planning to do for audio so this may be irrelevant, but I am pretty sure ATI has the edge right now over NVIDIA. from XBit Labs:&quot;Today, the most advanced implementation of the audio-over-HDMI feature is available with ATI Radeon HD 4800/4600/4500 series cards. The integrated audio core from Realtek can output 7.1 audio (192kHz/24bits per sample) with a bit rate of 6.144Mbps in AC3, DTS, Dolby True HD, DTS HD and LPCM formats. Nvidia’s GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 series are limited by the capabilities of the S/PDIF interface and support 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 DTS, and 2-channel LPCM. The integrated graphics cores Intel GMA 4500 and GeForce 8300 can output 7.1 LPCM audio, too.&quot;Someone here at this forum referred me to this article when I had trouble deciding on a video card and it helped me a lot.<a href="http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/media-playback_2.html#sect0" target="_blank">http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/media-playback_2.html#sect0</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FantaXP7, post: 472299, member: 88166"] Don't know if you have already gone ahead and purchased a card, but one thing to consider is the audio over HDMI factor between the cards. Not sure what you are planning to do for audio so this may be irrelevant, but I am pretty sure ATI has the edge right now over NVIDIA. from XBit Labs: "Today, the most advanced implementation of the audio-over-HDMI feature is available with ATI Radeon HD 4800/4600/4500 series cards. The integrated audio core from Realtek can output 7.1 audio (192kHz/24bits per sample) with a bit rate of 6.144Mbps in AC3, DTS, Dolby True HD, DTS HD and LPCM formats. Nvidia’s GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 series are limited by the capabilities of the S/PDIF interface and support 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 DTS, and 2-channel LPCM. The integrated graphics cores Intel GMA 4500 and GeForce 8300 can output 7.1 LPCM audio, too." Someone here at this forum referred me to this article when I had trouble deciding on a video card and it helped me a lot. [url]http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/media-playback_2.html#sect0[/url] [/QUOTE]

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