ah, 15% when using lesser card...now that's what Iwas expecting, and if it worked on 2900, it would probably be closer to 10% ona dualcore. I'm currently sitting @ quadcore and r600's in crossfire, i'll try both in corssfire config and regular single rendering, to see if it has any effect, however I have seen upwards of 70% cpu usage from a 3ghz Conroe when playing direct from blu-ray drive.
Now, this is why these websites "hold no water" in my books...they are playing trailers, such as you have, which is not the same as playing from a disk, which features both HD and SD content, as well as multiple audio streams, which noone of these trailers contain!
But i have watched that trailer....quadcore cpu usage from 10%-22%, across all 4 cores. In a dualcore system, this would be about double, of course. that's far too high, imho. Also keep in mind you probably ahve an overclock, and most users of such tech will not.
But then again, maybe this is what ATI was banking on when they made this design choice...most people that buy such a card have systems that can deal with such content decently, but pair these cards with a lesser cpu, and all hell can break loose!
Anyway, here's the law I've been refering to, straight from the justice department:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc...nchorbo-ga:s_4
Originally Posted by cadaveca
ah, 15% when using lesser card...now that's what Iwas expecting, and if it worked on 2900, it would probably be closer to 10% ona dualcore. I'm currently sitting @ quadcore and r600's in crossfire, i'll try both in corssfire config and regular single rendering, to see if it has any effect, however I have seen upwards of 70% cpu usage from a 3ghz Conroe when playing direct from blu-ray drive.
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