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Jmone, you think you can do me a favor?

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InflatableMouse:
Would you mind telling me your Madvr settings and use something like Speedfan to record the GPU temperature and fanspeed during a bluray movie playback (1,5 to 2 hours uninterrupted)?

If you're willing to do this, I can walk you through configuring speedfan and I'll PM you my email address to send the (zipped) logfile to.

I'm asking because soontm I may want to upgrade my videocard in the htpc and I'm considering the 660. But I'm concerned about the temperatures/fan speeds for the noise. If I can get an idea about those during a movieplayback that would be great.

I realize your case is different, but I think I can still get a rough idea of how hot it would run in my case (unintentional pun :P).  Even if I have better cooling it still won't cut the temperature by 50% if the load is 75% for example.

Thanks

jmone:
Here are some specs after running a VC-1 NTSC Interlaced Concert (toughest stuff I have) with madVR doing the Deinterlacing using Windows Overly mode and Jin3+AR for Chroma and Image upscaling.  Was running for about 20min (have to go) but it is about the same after hours (once left it on overnight) but today is pretty cool.  This card it not a quiet as the 550Ti I had but the 550Ti could not use Jinc3 + AR + Deinterlace the 1080/60i stuff (was "just" ok on 1080/50i). 

Can test more later today if you want more info.
Thanks
Nathan

jmone:
Here is the same clip on the 550TI (only ran a minute as the dropped frames make it unwatchable).

Sandy B Ridge:
Wow! I didn't expect such high GPU load on the 660. I'm still considering a 650Ti, but according to NVIDIAs graph the 660 is faster by a factor of 3:2 suggesting about a 90% load for 60i, a bit close to max for comfort.

Do you think I could get away with a 660 on my HTPC with only a 400W PSU??

Interesting that one uses 300Mb less memory than the other.

SBR

jmone:
The problem is what "may" come.... Till Madshi introduced Jinc3 + AR there was nothing that a 550Ti could not handle and it was cheap, quiet, low power etc etc.  Nice Card, but the 50i stuff was around 90% and just a little additional push on 60i broke playback so I'd agree that running a card close to the top does not give you much overhead.... and then madshi will introduce AR+ and you would be buying a new card again.  My PS in the Shuttle s a "80 Plus 300W" that runs not only the 660 (only requires 1 power cable), but an i7, SSD, and BD Drive all fine.  I'm not has happy with the 660 as I was the 550 as it is noisier, bigger (real cram to get it into the case - bits pushing on each other etc) but .... the 550Ti was just not powerful enough - compromises have to be made!

Also if you don't play any 60i stuff then .... who cares or if there was a way where you could pick and choose what madVR to apply by content specs (else you could just turn off the AR for this stuff ...) you might be good.

You might want to PM SamuriHL on this thread as he recons he got a 550Ti playing 60i stuff without maxing out.

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