I'm in need of some input on my upcoming computer upgrade. It's been some 3 years since I've last upgraded my computer so I've been relatively out of the loop. And I do primarily video editing/encoding with mostly 1080p60 files, photo editing, and the occasional gaming.
nVidia 980a chipset or AMD 890FX? Personally I hate ATI's drivers so I'm probably not gonna use an ATI/AMD GPU, which would render Crossfire to me as useless. On the other hand, all that crap going on about nVidia pulling out of the chipset market has gotten me slighty worried about future support. I want an upgrade path to Bulldozer without having to change motherboards.
Oh as a side question, does ATI support GPU decoding of h.264? If so using which decoder? I know CoreAVC only supports nVidia's CUDA, but how about ffdshow? Speaking of ffdshow, does it support multicore and GPU hardware decoding?
nVidia 980a chipset or AMD 890FX? Personally I hate ATI's drivers so I'm probably not gonna use an ATI/AMD GPU, which would render Crossfire to me as useless. On the other hand, all that crap going on about nVidia pulling out of the chipset market has gotten me slighty worried about future support. I want an upgrade path to Bulldozer without having to change motherboards.
Oh as a side question, does ATI support GPU decoding of h.264? If so using which decoder? I know CoreAVC only supports nVidia's CUDA, but how about ffdshow? Speaking of ffdshow, does it support multicore and GPU hardware decoding?
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