[NTLUG:Discuss] Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  I think you have it.  With modern processors and fairly recent video
cards, these decoder cards are not really necessary.  I suppose you
could still use one if you were concerned about keeping your CPU
utilization as low as possible during DVD playback.  A dual P3 with a
TNT2 card like yours does not need the decoder.
  If you have an old P2 system where you want to watch DVDs, move the
card there.
Good day,
Ralph

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:20 -0600, Mark Hanna wrote:

> I thought these cards were used in machines to offload some of the DVD decoding work from the older CPU and graphics card.  Am I way off base on this?