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I was thinking that too. If they really wanted to win market share, they should have made a DX10 compatible mobo graphics chipset.
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Mon, 02/05/2007 - 12:28pm
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Mon, 02/05/2007 - 2:10pm
#54
I don't recall, does DX10 add anything in the way of enahnced media playback?
Mon, 02/05/2007 - 3:23pm
#55
Lothar wrote:
I was thinking that too. If they really wanted to win market share, they should have made a DX10 compatible mobo graphics chipset.
Yeah it's almost like they're leaving the door wide open for nVidia to come along and kick their butts later.
As far as new things DX10 adds in terms of media playback, I don't recall offhand but I know one big deal is that it runs faster and much more efficiently. I could rattle off a few enhancements for games and such though hehe.
Mon, 02/05/2007 - 4:07pm
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As long has it can handle 1080p playback of advanced CODECs I would be great for client HTPC builds. Of course, for Widescreen gaming, you would want a dedicated card anyways.
Mon, 02/05/2007 - 4:36pm
#57
Alan Cooke wrote:
I don't recall, does DX10 add anything in the way of enahnced media playback?
As far as I know not really. The 8800 series cards do have several enhancements like a 10-bit video pipeline and a few other tweaks but these things are hardware tweaks and have nothing to do with DX10.
They definitely sound cool. Wish they were DX10 though, just cuz it seems odd buying new stuff that's the last version.
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