2012-02-15, 00:17
DDDamian Wrote:Might be time for a hardware upgrade I just watched ~2hrs of AC/DC Live at River Plate in 1080p with the refresh rate synced to the content @23.976
Dropped 14 packets during initial start, not one after that. Not using re-clock or madvr - straight up.
Here's a review of some cards and their refresh rate capabilities done in June 2011 (older drivers). Mine clocks in @ 23.977hz but as the reviewer suggests with a standard deviation it's slightly less, so almost bang-on the 23.976 rate.
Here's my card specifically in action.
Okay, that's good to know. The intel gpu is not the best for sync, but honestly after their last round of driver updates it's not terribly worse than Nvidia or ATI. Every video card I have tested has dropped frames at 23.976.
You say you are "watching content with refresh synced to content" yet in the setup pic you posted a couple of pages back you had the sync options all disabled. Do you set your desktop to 1080p/24?
Anyways, I'm sure there are better hardware options out there for sync, but I've actually been very very happy with how well the i3 has handled everything I have thrown at it. Having to sync it with XBMC to avoid dropping frames is normally not a cause for concern.