|
Should I upgrade from 6600gt to 8500gt?
Hi All,
I have been a bit disappointed of late of my gigabyte 6600gt's ability to de-interlace properly with live tv (tried all the decoders on powerdvd 7 at the moment). I have done a lot of reading and there are suggestions that the something like a MSI 8500gt with HDMI out enables you to select YCC out (instead of RGB) with a big jump in quality. Is this output option available in Windows XP drivers or just Vista?
As MPEG2 I believe is natively YCC, I can understand why colour space conversions to RGB could cause some issues, but it shouldn't if done properly. Has anyone made the jump from a 6600gt to an 8500gt and noticed better de-interlacing and PQ?
The other issue I have wiht the 6600gt is that the heatpipe effectively takes up 3 slots. I know the MSI takes up two slots, but is the back completely flat? That way the heatsink only infringes the other SLI slot and not any of the others.
thanks,
Anthony
__________________
Fusion HDTV & dual digital now pci-e Amd Athlon64 dual core 3800 msi 8500gt 256mb HDMI Pioneer dvr-110d Corsair value select 4x512mb Antec Sonata II case pioneer 436 plasma HDMI to HDMI
|