3450 for 1080p ?

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psyside

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Wanted to grab one of this for watching hd movies is it enough or i should
get 4350? i also heard ati cards are better for 1080p then nvidia is this true?
 
4670 is more then double price where i live so its not an option your saying that
3450 is not good enough for 1080p ? i don't quite understand your answer.
 
psyside said:
4670 is more then double price where i live so its not an option your saying that
3450 is not good enough for 1080p ? i don't quite understand your answer.
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What do you mean 1080p? What are you trying to do?

Almost any video card will handle that resolution, even onboard video card. If you talking about regular video and DVD's either will be fine. I would image the HD3450 would work fine for Blu-ray movies and some mild high definition video decoding, but this stuff will get pushed onto you CPU.

If they are close to the same price might as well grab the HD4350, since it has twice the power.
 
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Would like to watching 1080p movies 1920x1080 can you recommend me some cheap nvidia cards also it lookes like they got no 3450 on stock : /
 
Why not get a 4350 to get hardware accelerated H264 720p/1080p playback?
 
criccio said:
Why not get a 4350 to get hardware accelerated H264 720p/1080p playback?
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Does the 9400GT not have video hardware acceleration? I have not used an Nvidia card for a few years.

Pretty sure the HD3450 has H.264 hardware acceleration too, but the HD4350 is the same price here in the states and has twice the performance.
 
I have an Asus 3450 AGP card and the x264 acceleration works great in WMP Classic Home Cinema. It's paired up with an old Celeron D 2.93GHz processor and the CPU usage is usually ~30% when playing 1080p video.
 
Why not look at a 5450? HTPC right?

Excerpt form [H] review:

Due to these low power specifications, only a passive heatsink is required to keep this GPU cool. That means that the ATI Radeon HD 5450 can operate in a complete "silent" computer solution. No external power connection is required. Eyefinity is also supported for 3 displays at 2560x1600 each. For HTPC users note that there is full support for HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
 
thesmokingman said:
Why not look at a 5450? HTPC right?

Excerpt form [H] review:

Due to these low power specifications, only a passive heatsink is required to keep this GPU cool. That means that the ATI Radeon HD 5450 can operate in a complete "silent" computer solution. No external power connection is required. Eyefinity is also supported for 3 displays at 2560x1600 each. For HTPC users note that there is full support for HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
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Because the 5450 didnt exist in July of 09.
 
haha besides it doesn't look like the 5450 offers much more then a 4350, which is a bitchin of an HTPC card
 
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