Blu-ray Done Right: How Does Your Integrated GPU Stack Up?

[anamaniac]

300, Tomb Raider, The Fifth Element...
Sounds like you rented a bunch of movies and only remembered that you had to do a article at the last minute, just throwing together whatever you could between movie's while making popcorn. =D

 

[amdfangirl]

785G is 55nm, right?

 

[Onus]

"...there's little reason to recommend the Intel G45, which is sad, because it really does represent an excellent effort on Intel's part."
No, it doesn't. Intel + Graphics = FAIL. I think it is worth considering that Dad may set up the HTPC for his movies, but Junior is going to want to throw a game or two on it if only to see just how it looks on that big screen.

 

[icetom]

We can further discriminate with the question: how serious are you about home-theater audio? If you are an audiophile, you should know that out of these remaining options, only the GeForce 9300/9400 can handle uncompressed eight-channel LPCM audio over HDMI 1.3

This is not correct statment, because Nvidia 9300/9400, as ATI HD4xxx, can provide only downsampled 16/48 7.1 LPCM due to PAP protection. Unless article author had in mind AL889A+PowerDVD9 playback

 

[RCPG]

On page 2, on the "Integrated GeForce 9300/9400" table, I guess you wanted to write "450 (9200) / 580 (9300)" instead of both 9300.

Also, there are some missing words and misspelled words like in page 4 "(...) 9400 specifications in order to see if it --> is FIND (and not fine)

 

[RCPG]

On page 2, on the "Integrated GeForce 9300/9400" table, I guess you wanted to write "450 (9200) / 580 (9300)" instead of both 9300.

Also, there are some missing words and mispelled words like in page 4 "(...) 9400 specifications in order to see if it --> is FIND (and not fine)

 

[RCPG]

On page 2, on the "Integrated GeForce 9300/9400" table, I guess you wanted to write "450 (9200) / 580 (9300)" instead of both 9300.

Also, there are some missing words and misspelled words like in page 4 "(...) 9400 specifications in order to see if it > is < the best possible representation of the series." or "On the back panel you'll > FIND (and not fine) < eight-channel audio jacks".

Anyway, it's nice to see things are improving on the IGP camp.

PS: Sorry about the triple post. When I did < - - (all together) and - - > (all together) I guess I was doing something like "code commenting" when you're programming and that's why my last 2 posts were incomplete. Took me 2 to find out why.

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]RCPG[/nom]On page 2... ...4... [/citation]

Thanks for the heads up, dude! Fixed.

 

[briank]

[citation][nom]HalfHuman[/nom]20% for this would be 240watts and efficency would still be reasonable.i posted some link but i see it's been removed. that review said something about 65% minimum.[/citation]

Very few power supplies can provide good efficiency at 20% load. Most hit their sweet spot at 50% or above. A poorly designed PSU may have a good efficiency range of only 30% (example: 85% efficiency at 60-90% load). If you think 65% is reasonable, then that's your opinion, but I think its pretty poor.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I would prefer the discrete card alternative.

 

[blarger]

On page 2: Also like the 785G, they can handle six-channel Dolby Digital or DTS.

Needs to become can't.

 

[blarger]

On page 2: Also like the 785G, they can handle six-channel Dolby Digital or DTS.

Needs to become can't.

 

[Guest]

I own both, a GF 9400 and a 785g based Board and i can definitively say that 785g outperforms the GF 9400 deinterlacing in any way, can´t understand that the vector adaptive deinterlacing ability now included in 785g wasn´t mentioned in this test... VA is a so much better choice for TV viewers and nearly erverybody fiddling around with HTPC´s everybody knows this...

 

[BlueCat57]

It would be nice if they indicated which monitor they used for the tests.

I always have trouble finding Tom's monitor recommendations. I'm looking for an article on Tom's that talks about the difference of using a monitor or a television for viewing. Right now larger monitors are cost prohibitive but smaller monitors cost less than smaller TVs.

So which monitor do you use when testing?