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Should I put the DXR3?

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Whitewolf

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I'm almost finished building my system (AMD 1.2 C,A7V133, 512 Crucial PC133, Herc 3DProphet2 Pro w/TV out, sblive platinum 5.1). I have a spare PCI slot. Should I put my old DXR3 card or not. I'm asking because with my former system I had some problems with the screen output. You see I have an EIZO L360 TFT and when I connect her with the pass-through cable that comes with the DXR3 some vertical lines appear and the screen isn't "smooth". When I connected her without the pass-through cable directly on my old vga card, the lines disappeared and it became smooth. Do you know of any fix for this and what do you suggest?

Thanx
 
If your in Win2K leave it out because the drivers suck big time for it... If ya connect to a Home audio system leave it in so you can use the audio out on the card..
 
I don't use it in my computer since the image quality is greatly degraded with the pass thru cable. You might want to use if you wanna output the movie to a TV.
 
Yeah that's almost my final decision but consider the following:

I won't use the audio output because of my sb's spdif out to dtt3500 speakers.

As for the video out, is it any better than than the one in my 3d prophet 2 pro?

Also is the dvd playback better?
 
Yeah dood, if you got the Plantium 5.1, it already has a dolby decoder in there i assume and if you have a TV-OUT function on your Hercules Video Card, then there's no reason to use the hardware decoder, especailly if it gives you those weird lines on your monitor.
 
I finished builing my dad's computer this weekend with the following hardware/software:

OS: Win98SE
DVD Software: WinDVD 2.1
CPU: P3-866
DVD-ROM: Toshiba 12x
Videocard: ATI Radeon 32DDR

My computer has the following hardware/software:

OS: Win98
DVD Hardware: Creative Dxr3
CPU: P2-450
DVD-ROM: Toshiba 2x
Videocard: ATI Radeon 32DDR

I was extremely impressed at how well the Radeon with WinDVD could play Run Lola Run and Life is Beautiful. It easily rivaled my Dxr3. Having said that, I'll keep my Dxr3 until I build a new machine and/or upgrade to WinXP.

 


<< As for the video out, is it any better than than the one in my 3d prophet 2 pro? >>

Absolutely. The TV-out quality on the Hollywood Plus (DXr3 is the same board) is far far better than the Brooktree chip on your GeForce. It's very noticeable in my opinion. The Brooktree chip doesn't look any better than a decent VCR. The hollywood plus/dxr3 is as good as a set top DVD player.

Side Note: The Rage Theatre chip used in some of the newer ATi board (Radeon AIW, Vivo and the AIW Pro32MB are the only ones I know of off hand) are quite good TV quality, almost as good as the H+/DXR3. But the Brooktree chip is quite a ways behind (some GeForces use a Chrontel chip which I've never personall used, but have heard is a little better than the Brooktree, but still well behind the H+/DXR3).


Try the TV-out on your GeForce, it's not near as good as the Decoder board, but depending on your TV and how discerning you are the GeForce may be good enough for your liking.

And the Decoder card definately hurts 2D monitor quality. For DVD display on a monitor Decoder cards are a bad choice, software can do just as well if you get a good player, and you keep 2D quality at max. But for TV quality you can't beat a hardware decoder.

Edit: Just a random sidenote that has nothing to do with anything, using a hardware decoder is a pain in the arse to use for TV-out anyways. If you want TV-out get a set top...much much easier.

 
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