[soder]

I getting tired on my GIGABYTE MA78GM-S2H HDMI SOCKET AM2+ M-ATX with the ATI HD3200, so Im thinking of buying a NVIDIA gfx.

What is the cheapest card that works good with XBMC, Ubuntu and hardware decoding?

/Söder

[Livin]

I think this is a fair question... I did some research and did not find the answer so I'm also interested.

So... What NVidia chipset is the lowest-end that will do 1080p video well?

[soder]

I think this is a fair question... I did some research and did not find the answer so I'm also interested.

So... What NVidia chipset is the lowest-end that will do 1080p video well?

I found this in Sweden.
ASUS GEFORCE 8400GS 256MB DDR2 VGA/DVI SILENT
Costs about 40$

Wonder if thats a good start, of if its to good or to bad...

/Söder

[decaturguy]

I found this in Sweden.
ASUS GEFORCE 8400GS 256MB DDR2 VGA/DVI SILENT
Costs about 40$

Wonder if thats a good start, of if its to good or to bad...

/Söder

If I were you i should invest in 9 series... there are at alright price right now in Sweden.

http://www.komplett.se/k/kl.aspx?mfr=&bn...6.K144543.

Personally I'm using good old 8600GS 512MB SilentFX, bought it with my computer when it came out.

[motd2k]

9400gt 512mb

[soder]

What does the 9000 serie have that the 8000 doesnt have? I need the gfx for nothing more then XBMC.

The 9000-cards cost half the price of my motherboard cost... =(

Are there any plans for hw-decoding with the ATI?

/Söder

[User 34959]

9400gt 512mb

Why? Doesn't this one have crappier chip than 8400gs?

[C-Quel]

i have an 8500gt 512mb passive cooling and it works perfectly even the killa sample is LOWWWWWWWWWW cpu usage

[soder]

i have an 8500gt 512mb passive cooling and it works perfectly even the killa sample is LOWWWWWWWWWW cpu usage

I thought the killa sample couldn't run on hw-decoding?

/Söder

[xnappo]

I thought the killa sample couldn't run on hw-decoding?

/Söder

?? Sure - works fine. Why wouldn't it? It is a sucky test though - artbeats is better...

xnappo

[motd2k]

No offense but this has been discussed so many damn times now. 8400gs will do VC1 in hardware, but its got a hardware bug. Steer clear.

9400 does 'partial' VC1 acceleration, which in plain English means that on my 5050e running 1080p24 source loads the CPU to 5%/15% per core, its fine.

Killa works fine, it would seem you read the first 3 pages of the nvnews.net mplayer thread and then got bored.

Finally, in one post you ask about the 8400GS for $40 and then complainn about the price of the 9000 series, they're punch for punch almost identically priced.

Just get a 9400 or 9500 with 512MB, its really that simple.

[Mony]

I have 9400GT with 512vram. I'm running it on with A64x2 4200+ underclocked to 1000mhz and undervolted to 1.1volts. It runs killa without any frame drop (only 6-7 frames when the file starts) and doesn't even touch the cpu. The vga costs ~50$.

[BLKMGK]

motd2k wrote much (all?) of the VDPAU support for XBMC and folks are questioning his recommendations for hardware to make use of it? wow.....

[Glave]

Is there any trick to get hardware decoding working? (switch?) I just built my machine a while back and I built it 'beefy' to begin with, and its ran great, so I haven't even bothered to look into it yet.

[soder]

I have 9400GT with 512vram. I'm running it on with A64x2 4200+ underclocked to 1000mhz and undervolted to 1.1volts. It runs killa without any frame drop (only 6-7 frames when the file starts) and doesn't even touch the cpu. The vga costs ~50$.

Im trying DXVA at my Win7 computer, with MPC-HC, and Ive been told that the killa sample dont work with hw-decoding.

Thats why Im wondering why you guys can do it in XBMC.

/Söder