[mythtv-users] VDPAU PCI card effectiveness?

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Tue Sep  1 16:14 , Jean-Yves Avenard  sent:

>Hi
>
>2009/9/1 sonofzev at iinet.net.au sonofzev at iinet.net.au>:
>> 8400GS...  both CPU's sit at 1000Mhz even during HD playback.
>
>Surprising.
>
>Most people have noticed that anything below 1.7GHz would slow down
>the databus too much to feed the video streamfast enough to the nvidia
>card.
>That's on AMD only, as with Intel do not slow down the databus when
>you lower the core frequency
>)

I saw that.. . I actually did try to set a minimum of 1.8GHz to see if there was
a difference and the only thing noticeable was a heat increase.. I seem to recall
someone mentioning that only affected IGP's not discrete cards..