Um in addition to saving power in notebooks, you'd probably also end up creating a lot less heat. Though this might not be the case with NVidia cards ;-) Most reviewers of the Radeon came to the conclusion that the fan was purely for looks, something that I couldn't even say about my K6-2.
Peter Surda wrote: >On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:17:03AM +0000, David Johnson wrote: > >>Actually I think SiS offers an idct solution as well but beyond protecting >>intellectual property there are potential legal issues with exposing how ATI >>decodes copy righted, copy protected DVD. >> >I don't understand what this fuss about hardware accelerated idct is. In which >situation you actually get use of it? When I play DVDs on my Duron 650 I get >over 50% free CPU time with a software-only dvd decoder (vlc), the card only >does yuv->rgb and scaling. It really only helps on older computers, but why >would anyone buy a radeon 8500 and put it in an old computer? > >>It may or may not be an issue but I understand why they don't want to >>necessarily play those games. There are similar issues with releasing TV >>Out information. >> >Yes, there are problems about macrovision, i.e. the manufacturer shouldn't >give out the docs if they can't ensure control of macrovision. Fortunately >there has been some progress lately in the area of undocumented TV-Out >features, thanks to me <g>. > >Hmm isn't this dri-devel? Shouldn't we be talking about stuff like how to do >DMA efficiently and what new functions to add instead? Brings me back to what >I wrote a couple of weeks ago, there is no function in DRI that is able to >transfer data from the card to system memory and such a beast could really >come in handy when doing video capturing. > >>David >> >Bye, > >Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023 > >-- > To boldly go where I surely don't belong. > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
