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MahlerIsGod · 02-18-2004, 12:47 PM

I am thinking about getting an AIW from ATI. Does anyone know how much system resources are taken away just from watching television (not recording) on your computer. I have a Dell 8300 2.6HT P4, 1.25G of 3200 RAM and hopefully a 9600AIW. Does anyone know or have used such a card? Thanks for any info or data.

junglistic · 02-18-2004, 02:42 PM

A few years back i had an older AIWPro card, i think it was when i was running a Celeron 300a / 128megs or so? Anyways, TV ran smoothly no matter what i was doing.

i cant tell you in too much techical detail exactly what is going on, but i do beleive that all of the processing required to put the television signal into your application is done within the video card, so no real external processing power is required.

Silverbrain · 02-18-2004, 04:07 PM

With you system you wont notice a bit of difference when playing tv. Its very smooth, and doesnt hinder the cpu very much. As junglistic mentioned the encodingg/decoding is done on card.

Scorpion23 · 02-18-2004, 04:49 PM

I've got the AIW 9600 Pro and I don't notice any slowdown at all.

I just checked, and running fullscreen on my P4 2.0Ghz it took less than 1% of the resources shown by taskmanager. It actually stayed a 0% most of the time.

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02-18-2004, 04:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
Silverbrain Addict Location: Nor Cal	With you system you wont notice a bit of difference when playing tv. Its very smooth, and doesnt hinder the cpu very much. As junglistic mentioned the encodingg/decoding is done on card. __________________ Over Thinking, Over Analyzing Seperates the Body from the Mind - MJK

02-18-2004, 04:49 PM	#4 (permalink)
Scorpion23 Psycho	I've got the AIW 9600 Pro and I don't notice any slowdown at all. I just checked, and running fullscreen on my P4 2.0Ghz it took less than 1% of the resources shown by taskmanager. It actually stayed a 0% most of the time. __________________ "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality" - Edward Tufte

02-18-2004, 02:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
junglistic Insane	A few years back i had an older AIWPro card, i think it was when i was running a Celeron 300a / 128megs or so? Anyways, TV ran smoothly no matter what i was doing. i cant tell you in too much techical detail exactly what is going on, but i do beleive that all of the processing required to put the television signal into your application is done within the video card, so no real external processing power is required.