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All 400 series cards have built-in HDMI audio passthrough as far as I know. The 2-pin SPDIF header hasn't been required since the GTX 200 series.
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Argh. Real tempted to try GTX460 SLI. Is micro-stuttering still an issue? People seem to debate about it still.
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Old September 14, 2010, 06:41 PM
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I have 470 SLi and honestly I have never seen micro stutter although I have heard about it a lot.
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All 400 series cards have built-in HDMI audio passthrough as far as I know. The 2-pin SPDIF header hasn't been required since the GTX 200 series.
That's what I'm trying to get at though.... how are they doing it if it's not being done by the spdif header... do they now have an audio chip onboard (like ATI has had from day one of HDMI), or are they somehow processing the audio on either the CPU or the GPU?
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or just a sound card pass through via the bus?
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That's what I'm trying to get at though.... how are they doing it if it's not being done by the spdif header... do they now have an audio chip onboard (like ATI has had from day one of HDMI), or are they somehow processing the audio on either the CPU or the GPU?
I believe ATI handles it on the GPU, and I think nVidia does it the same way.
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I believe ATI handles it on the GPU, and I think nVidia does it the same way.
Nope... ATI has an actual audio chip on the video card itself for that duty.
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Custom clean install appears to have worked fine for me, W7 64bit and GTX470.
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Dumb question here but why does Nvidia make mention of the performance increases for 460 and 480 cards and not 470? I realize they can't list all of their cards but can't I assume that 470's will also see improvement? Thanks
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Dumb question here but why does Nvidia make mention of the performance increases for 460 and 480 cards and not 470? I realize they can't list all of their cards but can't I assume that 470's will also see improvement? Thanks
Because the 470 is really a cut down 480, I think you'd see similar percentage improvements as advertised by Nvidia.
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