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Gigabyte & Zotac Socket AM2+ Mobo Roundup
[Abstract]
Introduction NVIDIA's latest GeForce 9300/9400 series of mGPU motherboards has brought the spotlight back to IGP motherboards. For those who have an interest in these boards, the goals in recen...
[Content] PCDigitalMobileGame
HD Playback Performance
In our previous coverage of Avivo HD versus PureVideo HD, we have already found both solutions to be very competitive and useful. CPU utilization dropped significantly with either of these technologies and it's really a matter of personal preferences since the performance gap is mostly negligible. This was repeated in our two Blu-ray tests here, with the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and the Zotac GeForce 8300 tied for top spot.
The other two motherboards here have no dedicated hardware to offload the decoding from the CPU and this too was obvious from the much higher CPU utilization rates recorded. The 740G in particular looked like a big zero when it came to HD video playback. You'll need a speedier multi-core CPU if you're going down that road.
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