So I have a little problem.
I had a system with two nVidia 7600GS Graphics cards in an SLI configuration on a Gigabyte M590 SLI motherbaord. nVidia 590 chipset basically, PCI Express and all that. PCI x16 v 1 (or whatever).
But little did I realise, those cards weren't HDCP compliant.
Wonderful for everything else, and The Sims 2 was flawless for me.
Getting a Blu Ray drive, I was told by PowerDVD that I need HDCP compliant graphics cards, so I ummed and ahhed for a few months about ATI vs nVidia. I wasn't quite sure about ATI, I didn't think they were that fantastic compared to my rock solid nVidia based system.
But I figured I'd take the plunge, and get a HD 4670. Half the cost of an nVidia 9800GT and probably just as powerful, and I figured, why not.
Try my first Blu Ray disc with PowerDVD, and it starts playing, get lines on the screen, you remember in video editing when you try to go interlaced and you see each line out of sync with each other? Kind of like that. Then black screen. Ok fair enough, problem with PowerDVD.
Try the Sims 2, and the graphics stutter, the layers disappear, sometimes Im left with just floor, or random flashes as you roll around the screen.
Somethings amiss here.
Either the 4670 isn't as great as 2x 7600GS, or I've made a serious mistake. Power supply is 500 watt. 2 CD Rom, 4x1Gig of RAM, 3 HDDs, and a Dual Core Processor. Never been a problem with my two graphics cards. Maybe the HD 4670 just needs a PCIe x16 2.0 to work properly, in which case, what was the blooming point of that?
Any thoughts? This really is quite frustrating.
I'd like to know what Im doing wrong here.
Hopefully you'll tell me there's no reason, must be a substandard graphics card and that it should easily beat two 7600GS hands down, in which case, I'll send it back and get my money back.
Cya
Simon
I had a system with two nVidia 7600GS Graphics cards in an SLI configuration on a Gigabyte M590 SLI motherbaord. nVidia 590 chipset basically, PCI Express and all that. PCI x16 v 1 (or whatever).
But little did I realise, those cards weren't HDCP compliant.
Wonderful for everything else, and The Sims 2 was flawless for me.
Getting a Blu Ray drive, I was told by PowerDVD that I need HDCP compliant graphics cards, so I ummed and ahhed for a few months about ATI vs nVidia. I wasn't quite sure about ATI, I didn't think they were that fantastic compared to my rock solid nVidia based system.
But I figured I'd take the plunge, and get a HD 4670. Half the cost of an nVidia 9800GT and probably just as powerful, and I figured, why not.
Try my first Blu Ray disc with PowerDVD, and it starts playing, get lines on the screen, you remember in video editing when you try to go interlaced and you see each line out of sync with each other? Kind of like that. Then black screen. Ok fair enough, problem with PowerDVD.
Try the Sims 2, and the graphics stutter, the layers disappear, sometimes Im left with just floor, or random flashes as you roll around the screen.
Somethings amiss here.
Either the 4670 isn't as great as 2x 7600GS, or I've made a serious mistake. Power supply is 500 watt. 2 CD Rom, 4x1Gig of RAM, 3 HDDs, and a Dual Core Processor. Never been a problem with my two graphics cards. Maybe the HD 4670 just needs a PCIe x16 2.0 to work properly, in which case, what was the blooming point of that?
Any thoughts? This really is quite frustrating.
I'd like to know what Im doing wrong here.
Hopefully you'll tell me there's no reason, must be a substandard graphics card and that it should easily beat two 7600GS hands down, in which case, I'll send it back and get my money back.
Cya
Simon
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