I never said that Intels 32bit proccesors could not handle HD content. I said that they have very high clock usage. Tg Daily had an article on it a while back.
"In the first test run, a regular HD DVD movie bought in the US was played with the full load being put on the not quite up-to-date but still capable Intel dual-core processor."
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"Intel's two cores had plenty to do already with the VC-1 versions and needed 100% of their processing power to decode the movie..."
100% doesn't leave a'lot of power for backgound tasks. However, if you have a capeable graphics card (3rd party) from nVidia or ATI (none of that integrated stuff) then you could enable hardware acceleration which would reduce the load off the processor by about 30% - 40%. Averaging 65% give or take 5% of the clock cycle usage.
So yes an 32bit Intel processor can be used to view HD media, I'm just saying, AMD who have long since held the lead in CPU benchmarks have better performance for these kinds of tasks.
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I never said that Intels 32bit proccesors could not handle HD content. I said that they have very high clock usage. Tg Daily had an article on it a while back.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/28/nvidia_hdcp_graphics_card_presentation/
"In the first test run, a regular HD DVD movie bought in the US was played with the full load being put on the not quite up-to-date but still capable Intel dual-core processor."
...
"Intel's two cores had plenty to do already with the VC-1 versions and needed 100% of their processing power to decode the movie..."
100% doesn't leave a'lot of power for backgound tasks. However, if you have a capeable graphics card (3rd party) from nVidia or ATI (none of that integrated stuff) then you could enable hardware acceleration which would reduce the load off the processor by about 30% - 40%. Averaging 65% give or take 5% of the clock cycle usage.
So yes an 32bit Intel processor can be used to view HD media, I'm just saying, AMD who have long since held the lead in CPU benchmarks have better performance for these kinds of tasks.