Hi all,
I'm having many, many issues with my ati radeon hd4870 512MB. The card is working as well as radeons tend to, but unfortunately, it's not as well as advertised. Although gaming performance is amazing, it has serious issues with h.264 hardware decoding. It's reached the point that I'm thinking I'll try and see if I can get my money back.
So here's the question. If you were to shop for a replacement for the card with a similar budget, what would you go for? Ideally, it should perform in games approximately as well as the ATI card, but would be NVidia. Moreover, it NEEDS to not have issues decoding h.264 video. It also has to support hdmi output (preferrably without having to seperately purchase a dongle).
Has anyone tried using any Nvidia cards in that price-range for DVB-T/blu-ray playback? Any issues, or did they run perfectly smoothly right out of the box?
Cheers!