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26th August 2007, 19:25 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| HD content playing Need a bit of help for upcoming article, it's regarding HD content playback http://www.drfoster.f2s.com/trailers_hd-dvd.shtml download the "2 Fast 2 Furious" 1080p trailer, let me know your average total CPU usage (not per core) list CPU used (and clockspeeds) and your GFX card? E6400 @ 2.8Ghz - 8500 GT - 20~30% CPU Usage A64 3000+ @ 2Ghz - 6600 GT - 100% CPU Usage, choppy playback
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26th August 2007, 20:10 | #2 |
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| T5500 @ 1.66GHz - Intel 945GM - average 40% CPU usage |
26th August 2007, 20:19 | #3 |
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| A6320 @ 1.8 Dual C - 7300 gt - ~22% Sempron 3000+ @ 1.6 single C- X1200 onboard - 100% choppy L7200 @1.33 Dual C- Intel 945GM ~to be tested But I expect about the same as geoff
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26th August 2007, 20:24 | #4 |
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| E6320 1.8 DC only at 22% with 1080p? Hmmm, is that Sempron setup of your PCI Express? What happens if you use the 7300 GT in there? if it is PCIE, can I drop by with 8500 GT? (it's supposed to able to offload video encoding to GPU)
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26th August 2007, 20:29 | #5 |
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| It is PCIe. I'll put quickly the 7300GT and 8500 GT, I have both . Give me half an hour.
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26th August 2007, 20:33 | #6 |
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| for 8500 GT you'll need the latest NVIDIA drivers to get GPU acceleration working (but talking about H.264 here and other HD formats for HD DVD & BluRay) overview of acceleration supported: I think the movies above with WMV HD are in the "WMV9" column, so both 7300 GT / 8500 GT are on par; you can see though that the 8600gts/8600gt/8500gt have more support than all the others. Source: http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html if you look at the PDF, you'll see that the AGP 6600 GT lacks WMV HD acceleration, explains the 100% CPU load I'd say. More info here: http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2977 about the technology and more recent tests here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3047
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26th August 2007, 21:05 | #7 |
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| E2140 @2.9 7600GT 1080P 15 to 25% CPU usage TombRaider.
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26th August 2007, 21:08 | #8 |
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| best to use the same trailer as encoding differs from trailer to trailer
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26th August 2007, 21:10 | #9 |
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| Sempron 3000+ @ 1.6 single C- X1200 onboard - 100% choppy Sempron 3000+ @ 1.6 single C- 7300GT - 85% 93.81 Sempron 3000+ @ 1.6 single C- 8500GT - around 80% , sometimes spike to 100% normal/older drivers Sempron 3000+ @ 1.6 single C- 8500GT - around 80% , sometimes spike to 100% 162.18
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26th August 2007, 21:15 | #10 |
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| that's all a lot higher than I had hoped... hmm can you get your hands on 720p x264 content?
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