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<blockquote data-quote="joecrow" data-source="post: 1274908" data-attributes="member: 128337"><p>Further to the post by [USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] I just wanted to add my tuppence worth on GPUs. In my original HTPC I also used an HD6450, a good low cost card that did the job at the time, which for me in Germany was before HD TV. When I bought a new TV with 3D capability and upgraded my DVD player to Bluray I needed HDMI 1.4 capability which from memory was not possible with the HD 6450 so I upgraded with another more powerful AMD HD 5770 card which was fanless but as mentioned by others had a large heat sink that took up 2 slots. From memory, both cards performed well, just some occasional not so smooth horizontal panning usually on sports. A couple of years back Germany upgraded their OTA TV to full HD using DVBT2and HEVC which fortunately required no hardware changes in my HTPC (my TBS tuner was already DVBT2) but my GPU did not support hardware HEVC encoding which meant when playing TV my CPU usage went through the roof. I decided to upgrade the GPU again to the then new AMD RX 460 which supported HEVC encoding and also had sufficient power to effectively use Madvr. After some initial problems the RX 460 has worked superbly, smooth playback with full HD whether original or upscaled by Madvr. On the negative side the RX **0s are very power hungry and are not fanless though use are set up for zero fan speed at lower temperatures which for my HTPC use seems to be always. I have subsequently upgraded again to an RX 570 and swapped the 460 onto my desktop PC to get even more out of Madvr. I am not a fan of Nvidia but did try out a GT 1050ti for a while, it had similar performance to the RX 460 but I was never able to get 3D working reliably and I understand Nvidia no longer support it so I am happy I sold it.</p><p>I do agree that GPUs do seem to be aimed at the gaming market but there are opportunities in an HTPC to utilise the power that may be available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joecrow, post: 1274908, member: 128337"] Further to the post by [USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] I just wanted to add my tuppence worth on GPUs. In my original HTPC I also used an HD6450, a good low cost card that did the job at the time, which for me in Germany was before HD TV. When I bought a new TV with 3D capability and upgraded my DVD player to Bluray I needed HDMI 1.4 capability which from memory was not possible with the HD 6450 so I upgraded with another more powerful AMD HD 5770 card which was fanless but as mentioned by others had a large heat sink that took up 2 slots. From memory, both cards performed well, just some occasional not so smooth horizontal panning usually on sports. A couple of years back Germany upgraded their OTA TV to full HD using DVBT2and HEVC which fortunately required no hardware changes in my HTPC (my TBS tuner was already DVBT2) but my GPU did not support hardware HEVC encoding which meant when playing TV my CPU usage went through the roof. I decided to upgrade the GPU again to the then new AMD RX 460 which supported HEVC encoding and also had sufficient power to effectively use Madvr. After some initial problems the RX 460 has worked superbly, smooth playback with full HD whether original or upscaled by Madvr. On the negative side the RX **0s are very power hungry and are not fanless though use are set up for zero fan speed at lower temperatures which for my HTPC use seems to be always. I have subsequently upgraded again to an RX 570 and swapped the 460 onto my desktop PC to get even more out of Madvr. I am not a fan of Nvidia but did try out a GT 1050ti for a while, it had similar performance to the RX 460 but I was never able to get 3D working reliably and I understand Nvidia no longer support it so I am happy I sold it. I do agree that GPUs do seem to be aimed at the gaming market but there are opportunities in an HTPC to utilise the power that may be available. [/QUOTE]
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