Hi guys, I posted about a week ago for guidance with picking out a quiet video card. I went with a GTX 550 Ti with GDDR5 memory. I had to mod the video card BIOS to allow the fan speed to go down past 40%, finally getting it reasonably quiet. So, quite pleased with myself, I fired up ROHQ and immediately started noticing occasional dropped frames, confirmed by the madVR OSD. I'm sure CUVID is being used, as my CPU usage never goes above 20 percent (Sandy Bridge Pentium G620) even playing back 1080 content. GPU usage usually hovers around 10%. It seems to me that I should be more than capable of running ROHQ smoothly!
This is driving me nuts. I've tried three video cards now and returned two of them. The third one will probably go back as well now. I'm thinking of waiting till Ivy bridge comes out and buying one of those, dealing with SQ's lackluster colour reproduction for the time being. With better built in iGPU and more CPU power at lower wattage Ivy should hopefully work well in my passively cooled system while allowing me to finally get quiet, flawless ROHQ.