8400gs help

[Morphx2]

Hi guys,

I have a HP 3120n HTPC and added on an 8400gs to play back hd-dvd's via 360 drive to my projector.

I checked it out, and my computer usage is real high, around 90%. Isn't the card supposed to do all the work? It is making the video playback real bad and choppy :-\

any ideas?

It has:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4200+

And 2 gigs of RAM

 

[Red Falcon]

The 8400GS is the weakest card to playback HD-DVD's (VC-1 codec) next to the HD2400Pro. If I were you, I would get at least an 8500GT or HD2400XT to playback those kinds of videos with any performance boost.

Also, the 8400GS uses turbo cache, so it is eating part of your system memory and memory bandwidth.

The 8500GT doesn't do this, so there will be no performance decrease.


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