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Am Sonntag, 15. April 2012, 09:18:15 schrieb Walter Dnes: |
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:30:02PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote |
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> > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: |
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> > > If it's PCIe, so be it. Actually, a post that prevents me wasting |
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> > > money is helpful <G>. Would PCIe be significantly better on the same |
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> > > CPU+GPU, or is it hype? |
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> > a lot, lot lot lot better. No hype. |
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> I've done some looking, and I'm back with more questions. I've also |
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> read the Nouveau-versus-NVIDIA thread. Questions... |
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> 1) Will PCIe 2.0 cards work in a PCIe 1.0 slot? |
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yes |
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> 2) My main "torture test" will be HD fullscreen video. Will there be |
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> major improvement in that? That's 2D. Forget 3D. |
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if you get va-api working. Is it mpeg4? |
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> 3) The 2 lowest-priced Nvidia's at the local store are... |
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> Asus EN210 SILENT/DI/512MD3/V2(LP) NVIDIA GeForce 210 Chipset (589Mhz) |
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> 512MB (1333Mhz) GDDR3 DVI/VGA/HDMI PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card |
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you could also stay with onboard graphics. |
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> and EVGA GeForce 8400GS 1GB (01G-P3-1302-LR) nVidia GeForce 8400GS |
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> Chipset (520Mhz) 1GB (520Mhz) DDR3 Dual Display DVI/HDMI/VGA PCI Express |
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> 2.0 Graphics Card |
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you should stay with onboard graphics. |
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> Any preferences? |
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yes, AMD, they support open source. |
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also, va-api does work. |
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