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<blockquote data-quote="Tech Geek" data-source="post: 62510" data-attributes="member: 18181">Actually, as long as your card supports 10GB/sec memory bandwidth you should be ok without overclocking.&nbsp; 6600GT or X1600 should be fine.&nbsp; No need for a faster card unless you want to do H.264 compression with the GPU... in which case you get faster compression with faster cards.H.264 is not directly supported by MediaPortal yet and the current graphics card support isn't strictly by custom hardware it's done mostly with the GPU.&nbsp; H.264 support may eventually be extended to older cards but with an X800 costing about what an X1600 does there's no point in getting an X800.Avivo is the ATi alternative to PureVideo and actually uses slightly less CPU for it's video playback.&nbsp; It has also been rated with slightly better video quality but it's unlikely you will notice a difference most of the time.I'm guessing when H.264 support is first added to MediaPortal it will be handled by a post recording process in which case real time compression won't be needed so faster cards aren't required but will shorted the post processing time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tech Geek, post: 62510, member: 18181"] Actually, as long as your card supports 10GB/sec memory bandwidth you should be ok without overclocking. 6600GT or X1600 should be fine. No need for a faster card unless you want to do H.264 compression with the GPU... in which case you get faster compression with faster cards. H.264 is not directly supported by MediaPortal yet and the current graphics card support isn't strictly by custom hardware it's done mostly with the GPU. H.264 support may eventually be extended to older cards but with an X800 costing about what an X1600 does there's no point in getting an X800. Avivo is the ATi alternative to PureVideo and actually uses slightly less CPU for it's video playback. It has also been rated with slightly better video quality but it's unlikely you will notice a difference most of the time. I'm guessing when H.264 support is first added to MediaPortal it will be handled by a post recording process in which case real time compression won't be needed so faster cards aren't required but will shorted the post processing time. [/QUOTE]

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