Value of DEVA on 770Z?

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Greetings all, from a sometime lurker now first-time poster,

I've been the proud owner of a 770Z for almost 3 years. It's more or less stock except it's up to 448MB RAM, running XP. I've got parts for a PIII-800 conversion on the way, but that's a different topic.

My question is this: with the system I've described above, would there be any advantage to be gained by adding a DEVA to this machine? I was under the impression that the 770Z didn't need the DEVA since it has the 9397DVD video adapter, but I note that I have a slot for one here. So what's the point of adding one? Does this Dolby-out port serve as an auxiliary audio-out? Will it improve my video performance in general, or only when playing DVDs, or indeed not at all? I'm a bit confused as to what it does, aside from adding TV-in and -out ports.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Drew

[AlphaKilo470]

The 770 series DEVA card provides a hardware chipset solution for MPEG decoding and it also adds video input and output. The DEVA card also gives digital (AC3) audio output.

[sickofit]

Aside for the advantage of the mentioned ports(Video Capture In,Video Out,and AC-3 out....the CPU wouldn't have to be stressed as much using the DEVA card,but with the 800Mhz upgrade,it shouldn't be too bad......A call for you....

Greg St.L