Performance Hit from Tv Tuner/2 screens?

[TidusZ]

I Got a Hauppage HVR-1800 for christmas, and am planning on attaching a 17" to my current gtx 280 and 24", with the 17" for tv while I do other stuff (surf net, game). I am wondering what kind of performance hit I'd get while playing games and watching tv at the same time. I play a lot of games from 5 year old wc3 to crysis warhead at high settings. I have never had a tv tuner before.

 

[TidusZ]

Anything? Anything at all??

 

[TidusZ]

I am still wondering if I will take a performance hit for using a 2nd monitor with tv-tuner during gaming, and if so, how big of a performance hit. ANY input would be good input.

 

[cheesehead]

I would say a big performance hit. Even if the PVR card is doing the encoding/decoding, there's a lot of work being done by the CPU, RAM, et cetera. Get a second PC, maybe?

 

[nicolaskl]

Can't you just test it?

I've been playing EQ2 lately on my main 1920x1080 while watching streamed (sometimes HD) content on my 1680x1050 and haven't noticed any significant performance hit.

 

[TidusZ]

can't test it til I get some cable running down here, wont be til next weekend. Unfortunately my 2nd pc doesnt have a pci-e slot, and this card requires one ^.^