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Is the 8500gt the best card for watching movies/ encoding?

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ashblk   12-19-2007 at 01:17:03 AM

If it's not the 8500gt then what do you think it is? This is for a friend and they're concerned only with watching movie/ encoding.

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roadrunner197069   12-19-2007 at 02:52:59 AM
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I got an 8500 gt and I got to tell you it plays movies superbly. I'm waiting on my new quad until I encode my DV videos to DvD so I can't answer that question. Most games play very nicely also. "Not Crysis", but Call of Duty 4 is sweet.

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Xazax310   12-19-2007 at 03:07:09 AM
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the 2600XT is hands downthe best decoder here in both XP and Vista. I believe THG even did a review of these features and included all the low from 2600XT to the 2400XT/PRO and the 8600GTS to the 8400GS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] index.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/1 [...] purevideo/

Check those out, specially the last one.


Message edited by Xazax310 on 12-19-2007 at 03:08:26 AM
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astrotrain1000   12-19-2007 at 06:18:26 AM
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I had a 2600pro(just got a 3870 today) and it was great for watching movies, didn't do much encoding though. The built in audio for the hdmi was a great feature imo.

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jaguarskx   12-19-2007 at 07:55:37 AM
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Video cards has no impact on encoding, it is CPU bound.

Yes, ATI did release AVIVO a few years ago, but video encoding was done thru Catalyst's proprietary encoding program which merely hints at the potential. That encoding program was very, very limited.

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jaguarskx   12-19-2007 at 07:58:00 AM
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I can't seem to find the review, but the 8600GT and HD2600 generally outperforms their younger siblings in HD decoding. That means lower demand on the CPU.

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