On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:05:14 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so > ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty > sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and > then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each > setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on > the video card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving > the card a work out instead of my CPU. Personally I use a local Bluray 1080p rip of Transformers3 for that. I figure if the scene with Optimus and Sentinel bashing hunks off each other doesn't give a GPU a decent work-out, then nothing will.... and it's a fun movie, much more interesting to watch than temp guages -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
