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I am trying to help a friend out with his media PC. And i am trying to find out some information about the performance of HDMI Audio which is something i myself have not used as my media PC has an old 7900GT so i connect to my amp via optical and just HDMI for the Video.
My media PC is an i3 (can't remember exact model), 4GB DDR3, the GeForce 7900GT and on-board sound. Which plays 20-30GB HiDef videos perfectly.
My friends is a quad core Core 2, 6GB ram on-board audio and a radeon hd 4350 and his struggles with the same files. He uses the HDMI audio out on the graphics card straight to his amp.
Now considering my i3 doesn't even hit 30-40% surely the Core 2 can handle such high rips, it’s not the ram so it must be the graphics card (as i know the 4350 is a very low end card).
Does anyone know how well the HDMI audio performs? where the processing happens? does it use CPU or the Graphics cards resources. I know this will probably vary from card to card but some generalisations are fine if anyone knows.
I'm thinking about the GeForce GT 640 as a replacement which is at the upper range of his budget.
I'm a bit out of the game these days, more software than hardware, so any comments would be received with gratitude!
I am trying to help a friend out with his media PC. And i am trying to find out some information about the performance of HDMI Audio which is something i myself have not used as my media PC has an old 7900GT so i connect to my amp via optical and just HDMI for the Video.
My media PC is an i3 (can't remember exact model), 4GB DDR3, the GeForce 7900GT and on-board sound. Which plays 20-30GB HiDef videos perfectly.
My friends is a quad core Core 2, 6GB ram on-board audio and a radeon hd 4350 and his struggles with the same files. He uses the HDMI audio out on the graphics card straight to his amp.
Now considering my i3 doesn't even hit 30-40% surely the Core 2 can handle such high rips, it’s not the ram so it must be the graphics card (as i know the 4350 is a very low end card).
Does anyone know how well the HDMI audio performs? where the processing happens? does it use CPU or the Graphics cards resources. I know this will probably vary from card to card but some generalisations are fine if anyone knows.
I'm thinking about the GeForce GT 640 as a replacement which is at the upper range of his budget.
I'm a bit out of the game these days, more software than hardware, so any comments would be received with gratitude!