Upgrade from GA-MA78GM-DS2H to Nvidia 9300 or extra GPU? (2 Viewers)

[disaster123]

Hi!

At the moment i've the GA-MA78GM-DS2H - but i cannot use Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing with my Athlon X2 4200ee and i don't want to change the CPU to power hungry phenom.

As the ATI drivers are making me really crazy - since two days i suddently cannot even use motion adaptive deinterlacing - i'm thinking about switching to a Nvidia 9300 Motherboard.

Which Chip does the better deinterlacing? Does nvidia also support vector adaptive deinterlacing? Can i use it with my simple Athlon X2?

Stefan

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

i'm thinking about switching to a Nvidia 9300 Motherboard.

AFAIK these gpu's are limited to intel motherboards atm, so requires pentuim\celeron processor.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3432

Beside tech talk, cannot find anything about how it handles things like Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing

 

[disaster123]

uff - so i can only switch to a 790GX with Sideport memory? Is it then possible to use my Athlon X2 with Vector Adaptive deinterlacing?

Is the Asrock A780GXH/128M an alternative? Does there Vector Adaptive work fine with 1080i and an Athlon X2?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi

About the Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing, apparently the avivo codec is the only one that fully supports this, are you using it

 

[disaster123]

I'm using PDVD 8 it supports it too - as far as i know - it does also work on my second HTPC but it is with an external HD2600XT,

 

[Spragleknas]

i'm thinking about switching to a Nvidia 9300 Motherboard.

AFAIK these gpu's are limited to intel motherboards atm, so requires pentuim\celeron processor.(...)

Correct. But the AMD option (8200/8300) is just as good. Although it also requieres a HT3 CPU (Phenom) - like 780G - to perform at best.

 

[disaster123]

Spragleknas
Thanks for your answer.

But a 790GX with sideport memory does not require a HT3 CPU right? What is about a 780GX with sideport? And both do support vector adaptive deinterlacing? It's a real mobo / combo jungle.

 

[rtv]

Having two HTPCs with ATI 780G and Nvidia 8200 I'd certainly go for the ATI (if you don't need 7.1 LPCM sound over HDMI).
If you cannot manage to get the 780G working you'll struggle with Nvidia as well

Do you not even get the option to override the Deinterlacer to anything better than Bob?

 

[disaster123]

rtv
The problem is a little bit more complicated. The last 3 weeks everything was working fine - no problems. I can use motion adaptive deinterlacing - vector adaptive is only working with Phenom CPU. Then suddently after installing latest SVN - can't remember installing anything else cause it is only a htpc in the bedroom the cpu cooler started to run at 100%. I checked everything and every deinterlacing methods are gone except for Bob. Only when i disable Aero i can select motion adaptive but when i play a video it jumps back to Bob.

As i don't want to change my CPU and i want vector adaptive my idea was to change the mobo to one that can handle vector adaptive without changing to a phenom.

Nivida was only an idea

> Do you not even get the option to override the Deinterlacer to anything better than Bob?
I think you the registry hack with vforcedeint option. This only works until cat 8.10 and does not work with newer drivers.

 

[Spragleknas]

Did you consider adding a HD3450 (cheap!) and use ATi's hybrid crossfire feature? (NB: I haven't read all that much about it, though).
I "had" to upgrade my 690G w/ a 3450, and I'm quite happy with it (no hybrid crossfire feature).