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(More customer reviews)I recently built a WMC HTPC using an ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard. The motherboard uses an on-board ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics chipset with 128MB of RAM. I used two Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 tuner cards and an AMD Athlon II X4 600E RT processor.
While my HD picture wasn't bad, I love to tweak things and I thought I could take some of the load off of the CPU by installing a better video card. My only requirement was a passive heatsink to keep noise levels to a minimum.
The card is a beauty and very well built, although it does take up two PCI slots. During Blu-ray playback it actually stayed fairly cool.
The trouble I ran into was an apparently common one. On certain channels I would experience repeated white flashes (picture contrast getting brighter), which made those channels unwatchable.
I found some solutions online, but none of them worked for me. The most common fix was verifying that the video card settings were set so that the application using it would define the video settings and not the NVIDIA drivers. I also tried updating the drivers, removing and reinstalling the drivers and many other things to no avail.
So... as much as I liked the card, I removed it, uninstalled the drivers, went back to the on-board ATI graphics and the white flashes went away. Perhaps I'll try one of the ATI cards with a passive heatsink. However, to be fair, others have also experienced contrast flashing with ATI cards.
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