8200 onboard graphics

[matt_fsr]

OK, so I've built up a HTPC for mostly media playback and downloading, with 1Tb storage, with onboard nVidia 8200 graphics.

Anyone got any experience with what kind of performance I can squeeze out of this? Thinking of being able to take it to LAN events just for a giggle more than anything

Wanna avoid loading half my games on to find most won't run.....

HL2 / CS:S at reasonable quality/resolution? Or is that pushing it?

 

[Ben M]

Why not take your other rig?

Also, if you have the games and the htpc, why not just find out? :S

 

[matt_fsr]

Lazy and bored at work ..... shud really put some holiday dates in, i'll get around to it...

 

[HeX]

8200 is pretty pants, only decent on board GPU's are the 780G and the new nvidia 9300/9400.

 

[matt_fsr]

Ta for the graphs, hadnt seen those elsewhere - Mainly got the 8200 for HD playback without needing a separate card.

Nice to know it'll do COH with a bit of eye candy, though I was hardly expecting it to play Crysis - might run a few older things on it occasionally though.

 

[craptakular]

OK, so I've built up a HTPC for mostly media playback and downloading, with 1Tb storage, with onboard nVidia 8200 graphics.

Anyone got any experience with what kind of performance I can squeeze out of this? Thinking of being able to take it to LAN events just for a giggle more than anything

Wanna avoid loading half my games on to find most won't run.....

HL2 / CS:S at reasonable quality/resolution? Or is that pushing it?

css is heavily cpu dependant, it should run well with a good overclocked dual/quad

 

[matt_fsr]

Box has a AMD X2 2.5Ghz in it, so plenty of CPU power to spare - CSS used to run fine on my old single core Opteron at similar speeds. (I miss that chip, it was superb!)