Suggestions for PC build

[sandman_1]

Blocky? Not even close. I had the 7900GT running Windows 7 for the longest before I got my GTX260. It ran Windows 7 on my 24" monitor at 1920x1200x32 without even sweating and with all the bells and whistles on. Besides this isn't a gaming build. My dad will be browsing the Internet, checking email, word processing, and ect., hardly even pushing the 7900GT. It did do DXVA so it did decode through the graphics card in mpc-hc. Easily did 1080p Bluray just fine.

[Artemis]

Blocky? Not even close. I had the 7900GT running Windows 7 for the longest before I got my GTX260. It ran Windows 7 on my 24" monitor at 1920x1200x32 without even sweating and with all the bells and whistles on. Besides this isn't a gaming build. My dad will be browsing the Internet, checking email, word processing, and ect., hardly even pushing the 7900GT. It did do DXVA so it did decode through the graphics card in mpc-hc. Easily did 1080p Bluray just fine.

I had a 7950GT which I used to run that I sold to a friend ( I never ran the card myself under Windows 7). He later used it in an HTPC build, under Windows 7 running on a Samsung LCD 40" TV the output was blocky even compared to an 8500GT and performed lower with .mkv files. Under Linux the card ran extremely well though (using XBMC as the frontend in both instances).
If it is just for a standard internet browsing PC it will be more than adequate though, with the caveat that those addictive little flash games require DirectX 10 for hardware acceleration.

[mjmacky]

The "blockiness" you see is when you use DXVA hardware acceleration on non compatible files. If you were to use pure software decoding (like CoreAVC or ffmpeg) then you wouldn't see those blocks, regardless of your video card.