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by sandy keelow
Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:39 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: ATI vs nVidia fanless cards for mkv hardware acceleration
Replies: 10
Views: 8457

Re: ATI vs nVidia fanless cards for mkv hardware acceleratio

poohbear wrote:Do all the new nvidia cards these days support hardware mkv acceleration?
There is no such thing as an mkv accelerating video card, as mkv is a container format and not a video codec... I guess what you want to talk about is H264 acceleration when the stream is contained in mkv ?
by sandy keelow
Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:05 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Transform 'Cuda 7200.11 1.5tb into Velociraptor Killer
Replies: 78
Views: 86188

A related question: If I use the standard partitioning tools in XP/Vista/Win7 am I guaranteed that the first partition is the furtherest out on the drive and the last partition furtherest in? I think all partitioning tools start at sector adress 0, then there are probably some exotic drives where s...
by sandy keelow
Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:07 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Quiet / Noisy Monitor Survey
Replies: 272
Views: 526262

ASUS VW192S Annoying buzz at any brightness setting below 100%, a bit lower at 0% and 50%... I tried to put some epoxy glue on the coil but probably didn't put enough of it, noise didn't really change, next time I open the thing I'm going to try drowning the coil in silicon and using rubber bolts t...