Upon setting the affinity of Azureus to one CPU, MCE immediately became buttery smooth again. I scoured the net to see if I was just taxing the system too much, and this was the suggestion. This is very evident when you are running say 20-30 tabs on Firefox, have a larger image on photoshop or have 20+ dl/ul going on Azureus. I was speaking of other programs being set to one CPU or the other. I certainly see no need to degrade a dual core or HT CPU system to single CPU affinity since I have seen no evidence of it slowing anything down in fact it should do just the opposite by allowing another CPU core to not compete for CPU resources required with your TV processing since it only uses one CPU except for the case when it is double buffering the input from your tuner card which uses very little actual CPU poser. If you are going to process 1080i HDTV programs with an HDTV card then I stronly reccomend the newer NVIDIA 7600GT since it provides better PQ then the 6600GT since it has better de-interlacing and motion compensation support and better performance then then the 7600GS.

Avs video editor video looks choppy