Hi all,
My father bought a new Sony 40" TV and he wants to watch high quality movies on the TV. He only has an old PC to use as "HTPC", it had a Pentium 4 w/ HT @ 2.93GHz and an X1650 PRO in it. I decided to buy a GT 520 today for his PC though (since it has HDMI 1.4a). After installing the card and playing a few mkv files with VLC player (GPU acceleration enabled) I noticed that some movies would stutter pretty bad while others played just fine. I did look at the GPU load, and in cases the movie played fine the GPU was around ~75% load while during stuttering it was ~93% load.
Is this card really to weak to play mkv files let alone 3D movies?
My father bought a new Sony 40" TV and he wants to watch high quality movies on the TV. He only has an old PC to use as "HTPC", it had a Pentium 4 w/ HT @ 2.93GHz and an X1650 PRO in it. I decided to buy a GT 520 today for his PC though (since it has HDMI 1.4a). After installing the card and playing a few mkv files with VLC player (GPU acceleration enabled) I noticed that some movies would stutter pretty bad while others played just fine. I did look at the GPU load, and in cases the movie played fine the GPU was around ~75% load while during stuttering it was ~93% load.
Is this card really to weak to play mkv files let alone 3D movies?
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OMPT's Composite Monster
(15 items) |
Nardis
(20 items) |
The Sidewinder
(17 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core i7 2600K @5.2 | MSI MPower Z77 | Point of View GeForce GTX 470 | Zotac GeForce GTX 470 |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| Corsair Vengeance 2000MHz C10 | Samsung Spinpoint F3 | Generic LiteOn | EK Supremacy Nickel |
| Cooling | Cooling | Cooling | OS |
| Koolance RP452x2 | Laing D5 (MCP 655) | TFC XChanger 360 | Windows 7 HP 64-bit |
| Monitor | Monitor | Keyboard | Power |
| Acer P241Wd X-series 24" | Dell U2412M 24" [2x] | Logitech G15 | Corsair TX750 750W |
| Case | Mouse | Mouse Pad | Audio |
| Silverstone Raven RV01B-W | Microsoft Sidewinder X5 | Generic | Onboard ALC889 |
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| Hard Drive | Cooling | OS | Monitor |
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| Power | Case | Audio | Audio |
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). I got 1080MHz on the core and 780MHz on the memory, it played a bit better but it's really not good.
