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You missed the boat on gpu-accelerated video playback? Virtually every discrete card made in the past three years has it, and newer models are better than ever :
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/hi...1gb-128bit-ddr3-agp/devil-may-cry-4-dx10.html
"During Video Playback, CPU usage was (as expected) at a bare minimum. The system idles at around the 5-10% mark (average used Vista installation with sidebar running), and during HD Video Playback this jumped to about 15%. Bottom line is though that those same video files were unwatchable with the X1800GTO in the system."
^^ Was done with an ancient P4 3.2Ghz w/1GB DDR1 memory, lol.