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Think I would treat myself to the CoreAVC codec, just to take advantage of CUDA support
This is a good idea, I may look into it soon. So far, this board has played back HD content so smoothly that I haven't even thought about it. The playback is so much superior to what I had before that I haven't gotten around to playing with codecs, or even installing the ones I already own like PowerDVD.
As to the questions about de-interlacing, I may not be the best tester for these things since my display is only 720p so I don't have much use for 1080 content. But I do believe that some of the internet streams that I use are 1080 and the one problem that I've noticed is that a few of them show slight artifacts. I think it's called tearing when scan lines are occasionally visible as part of the screen is showing a different frame than the rest? I've only noticed that on the very highest quality internet streams so maybe it's a bandwidth issue as well?
Anyway, FYI what I've got installed is this:
Asus P5N7A-VM
C2D E4500
2X1 Gb DDR2 800MHz Crucial RAM
1X Western Digital 1.5TB Green Power Drive
Satsuki Codecs, no additional HD or other codecs
Display connected by DVI -> HDMI
The integrated graphics chip borrows 512Mb of the system RAM, which I believe is configurable if I wanted to add more or free some up.
I don't know a lot of technical details about de-interlacing and I haven't run any benchmarks, but I can report that in my experience I have been able to simultaneously transcode DVD to XVID, transfer large files across the LAN, and watch either live HDTV with timeshifting in MP or stream HD content through Boxee without noticing image issues. The system is definitely a little slower with all of that happening and it gets the fans running, but it doesn't seem to impact playback at all, at least not that I can see on my 720 display.