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<blockquote data-quote="rocklander" data-source="post: 793352" data-attributes="member: 103900">okay.. convoluted development.. sortaso I wanted to get the client in the bedroom working too .. it's a <a href="http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3681#ov" target="_blank">GA-E350N-USB3</a> (MITX board with a PCIE slot, but the slot is only x4 (not x16)). has integrated gfx and HDMI, but it was insufficient horsepower for HD content. (same issue as above, and proc busted out at 100% usage), so I read up a lil online and saw that the x4 slot will 'take' an x16 vid card with about 5% performance fail. .. worth a crack so I put the nvidia 210 card (above) I had spare in there. it improved greatly, but not perfect (system would hang going between non HD and HD and I'd have to restart MP), and also the heatsink on it is so big that it hung outside the cube style case.so I bought a sapphire 6570 hoping that would sort it out.. no.. worse.. back to high usage CPU and delayed/stuttering playback..&nbsp; is it possible that the nvidia utilises the x4 better than the ATI? frustration a plenty.. am at work now, and can post logs later if necessary, but I just wanted to see if anyone had some insider knowledge on why the ATI would make things worse in this particular scenaio?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rocklander, post: 793352, member: 103900"] okay.. convoluted development.. sorta so I wanted to get the client in the bedroom working too .. it's a [URL="http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3681#ov"]GA-E350N-USB3[/URL] (MITX board with a PCIE slot, but the slot is only x4 (not x16)). has integrated gfx and HDMI, but it was insufficient horsepower for HD content. (same issue as above, and proc busted out at 100% usage), so I read up a lil online and saw that the x4 slot will 'take' an x16 vid card with about 5% performance fail. .. worth a crack so I put the nvidia 210 card (above) I had spare in there. it improved greatly, but not perfect (system would hang going between non HD and HD and I'd have to restart MP), and also the heatsink on it is so big that it hung outside the cube style case. so I bought a sapphire 6570 hoping that would sort it out.. no.. worse.. back to high usage CPU and delayed/stuttering playback.. is it possible that the nvidia utilises the x4 better than the ATI? frustration a plenty.. am at work now, and can post logs later if necessary, but I just wanted to see if anyone had some insider knowledge on why the ATI would make things worse in this particular scenaio? [/QUOTE]

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