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Gatherum:
Hmm...odd. My experience tells me the opposite. My old rig had a GeForce that exhibited frequent video issues (blanking out and refreshing, only to display green screens in place of any flash content, for instance), presumably due to driver issues. Haven't had an issue yet with my AMD APU (though I'm not certain it's a fair comparison to one of their discreet cards).

RoderickGI:
I upgraded to a discrete graphics card so that I could start using RO HQ, and hence use the new 3D capabilities of MC.

I was originally going with a "GeForceŽ GTX 960 GAMING 4G" to get a quiet card. One which would turn off the fans for most media viewing due to the low load. But then the "GeForceŽ GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G" came out based on the Pascal architecture, rather than the Maxwell architecture of the 960. I wanted the best future proofing I could get, and the 1060 provides later versions of some standards, so I went with that. The supported HDMI and HDCP standards were important to me.

HDMI 2.0b (Increased bandwidth up to 18Gbps to support 4K@50/60 (2160p))
HDCP 2.2  (For 4K support)
DirectX 12 API with feature level 12_1
DisplayPort 1.4
OpenGL 4.5

I use an AMD card in my workstation, but I wanted a quieter, less power hungry card in the HTPC. Hence, NVidia. I have had bad experiences with noisy blower fans, such as used on the RX 480.

I see the RX 480 supports HDMI 2.0b, DP 1.4, DX 12, but does it support HDCP 2.2? I see some reviews say it does, but lots of comments are just "it has HDMI 2.0, so it has HDCP 2.2", which is not correct. The AMD website seems silent on the matter.

Could be important for a PC playing media.

bhampster:
I recently got the Nvidia 1060 also. And I love it ! I thought I would need to go back to gaming to get the "goods" from this card and while it does good things with games, I'm very impressed with it's use within JRiver.!

Most of my content is Blu to a 1080p screen so I guess I don't do lots of scaling of the image ... but this card is much better than the GTX750 I was using. It's more responsive and the PQ is amazing.

It's hard for me to quantify all the ways it seems better but it really seems much better than before. One way I noticed is when switching the video I'm watching or doing a chapter skip.

-Brian

RoderickGI:
Good choice Brian.  ;D

I was playing with madVR settings yesterday for playback of old, low resolution movies, using the new 1060.

It did quite a good job upscaling, and did an excellent job automatically removing black bars from around the image in one movie.

Unfortunately with settings turned right up for such movies I managed to crash madVR playing a recorded 1080i sports TV program. I changed settings back and all was good.

So I still have some work to do in understanding what settings the 1060 can handle, but it is doing a very good job. Any 1080i/1080p video plays extremely well.

So, I will have to spend some time learning more about madVR, and the capabilities of the 1060, to fine tune settings.

Gatherum:
So I might not really need that video card after all: I purchased a Corsair Hydro H60, partly as a first step in this and partly because I was tired of all the fan noise that my HTPC was making simply being turned on for a while. The latter issue was remedied right away to my utter delight. After using AMD Overdrive to overclock the CPU to roughly 4.2 GHz (the maximum it could handle during a stress test with this cooler) and tinkering with the madVR settings, I am managing to squeeze out chroma upscaling with NNEDI3 at 16 Neurons with no dropped frames. It's the best I can do with this rig, and it's relatively rudimentary, but for having no discreet GPU, I am quite proud right now. Upscaled SD content has never looked better. :D

...This is especially fortunate, since the radiator that comes with the H60 removes about an inch of clearance from an already-tight chassis that requires a hypothetical GPU length of about 10 inches or less (it's the Silverstone FT03-MINI). Could be that it might still fit, but who knows? I'm not averse to buying one in the future, but for now, I'd say that I'm set.

A mere $60, very well-spent. :)

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