<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19/11/2008, at 4:39 PM, Robin Gilks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Is it likely that the performance of this acceleration is dependent on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the card/GPU you've got? I imagine the GPU still has a finite capacity<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to decode H264, especially as it might have to be doing other things<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">like rendering/scaling the actual output too...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I guess there's no simple way to get the load level of your GPU though?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That said, this is very exciting!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Neil<br></blockquote><br>I've been looking at motherboards with 8/9000 series GPUs onboard but I'm<br>finding it difficult to nail them down as some retailers just don't give<br>much detail without burrowing down into their web site.<br><br>For example, this one is local, cheap and in stock<br> <a href="http://www.tastech.co.nz/product_info.php?products_id=253597">http://www.tastech.co.nz/product_info.php?products_id=253597</a><br>but as far as I can see its a full size ATX card which makes it ideal for<br>my new server (and backend) but not as a frontend.<br><br>Does anyone have any suggestions based on this new nvidia criteria for a<br>quiet low power (in my case diskless) frontend motherboard? Just think<br>ahead to Christmas!!<br><br>Cheers<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>If you want AMD + MATX you probably want to look at the M3N78-VM </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=643&l4=0&model=2268&modelmenu=1">http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=643&l4=0&model=2268&modelmenu=1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Pricespy has details</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_13353.html">http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_13353.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm considering the motherboard as an option myself.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>