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  1. 4th Nov 2007 18:48 #1
    zoobie
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    Is the Geforce 8400 GS any better than intel's X3100 and ati's X1250 onboard graphics for editing HD?
    It says Vista ready...How about XP w/SP2?
    Or should I be looking at the 8500 up series that decodes HD?
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    Moved to the Computer forum. 8)

    If a card is Vista-ready, it'll definitely be XP-ready.

    For video editing, your graphics card shouldn't make any difference. It'll be your CPU, RAM and hard drive that are stressed. For HD playback, however, a card that can decode HD video is a bonus as it relieves stress on your CPU. In a recent test using an XFX GeForce8400GS, CPU usage for HD playback was around 23% with hardware-accelerated playback - this jumped to 40% without the card accelerating playback (Intel C2D E6700 2.66GHz).

    So, it looks like the 8400GS does accelerate HD playback, unless there are differences between cards as well as GPU models.

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