Discrete GT_430 more beneficial in any way than i3-530's Intel HD?

[jalyst]

I've carefully thought through most of the cooling aspect (long/detailed story)...
And i suspect that even the active cooling cards (at least the asus) won't be much louder than the remainder of my cooling set-up.

So passive cooling or not is fairly moot IMO....
But I do appreciate your thoughts once again, so thank-you!

[Kano]

Do you still have got problems with native intel vaapi accelleration?

[jalyst]

Nothing significant yet...
But there's still some limits in what I can do with VAAPI Vs VDPAU.
So I want to "hedge my bets" so-to-speak

[Kano]

The flash accelleration is not fully stable yet via vdpau, nothing that you really need - also 32 bit only. Youtube bitrates are a joke for the cpu you have got. If you want to play games then of course a new gfx card would be interesting, but of course no low budget one. For full hd games i would get a nv gtx 460 1 gb and certainly no gt 430. What do you gain with that little speed improvement?

[jalyst]

TBH I'm not even sure if i really want to play games on this build.
I think i'll be happy with a GT_430 purely for VA etc...

But I prolly will also get a GTX 560 Ti in 6mth, if I decide I want some "gaming grunt".

I'll just swap out the GT_430, and swap in the GTX 560
Assuming I don't have room, prolly won't, so a swap will be necessary.

[Kano]

If you don't have got any problems decoding videos that card is useless.

[jalyst]

Strange....

deanj outlined just some reasons why one would want a GT_430 over Clarkedale's Intel_HD.
Are you saying that Clarkdale's IGP + VAAPI is as capable *in every way* as the GT_430 when it comes to video?

[Kano]

You can not use the experimental flash vdpau accelleration. Fine, but your cpu has got 2.93 ghz and can decode that easyly if needed. The web bitrates for h264 are a joke. You need accelleration for hd bluray content with bitrates >40 mbit/s. vlc can use vaapi, currently i have got some problems with vaapi and xbmc, not sure what the problem is. Somebody reported success with the 1.0.x libva series, i used 0.31.1 sds. mplayer-vaapi can use the accelleration too. Do you REALLY have got content that you can not play correctly?

[deanjo]

Do you REALLY have got content that you can not play correctly?

I have tonnes of material that "can not play correctly?". That inability of playing true film mode is annoying as hell. There is a reason why xbmc and mythtv recommend a nvidia card that supports vdpau for playback.

[deanjo]

Correction NTSC Film Mode.