Asus Eee pc desktop

Aod said:
thats because the 7800GTX is doing all the grunt-work.
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The graphics card won't touch the output as it doesn't know what to do. The rendering will be entirely CPU-based.

The first generations of cards to play with HD material were the Radeon 2400/2600s and the Geforce 8500/8600s. There simply wasn't the demand prior to this point.

Considering my wee little Athlon XP at 1.6GHz will do 1080p (WMVHD, though), I'd take a punt that a 1.87GHz Core 2 Duo should manage without any problems.
 
steveo said:
yea either way both of the models above (tosk and mine) look great hope they use 2.5 hard drives instead of ssd will push the price down and mean you can update the hd later :D
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Hope they use HDDs too, slap a 250GB 2.5inch drive and you have a perfect HTPC.
 
ive got a mobile 1.86ghz Core 2 Duo (Dell Laptop) with onboard Intel 965 "extreme" graphics.

hasnt a hope in hell of playing back 1080p smoothly even with 2gb of RAM. You definately need a meaty GPU to offload the work to.
 
Interesting..

I have just built yesterday an aopen minicp, 2gb ram, T5500 core 2 duo 1.66ghz mobile cpu with onboard 945gm graphics.
Plays 1080p without any stuttering at all :)
 
Ooooh... damn it so many shiney new toys out over the last few months...

Just bought an Acer Aspire One, but I'm really tempted by an EEE Box now as well :o

The one thing that may very well be the EEE Boxes downfall though is the noticeable lack of a Optical drive! This is something you can forgive on something like a netbook, but a Desktop PC? Surely they can't be serious.

A slot loading drive on that would be wonderful.
 
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whats the word on upgrading the hard drive as on the site it said a max of 250gb, am sure you can get 320gb sata 2.5 drives now with 500gb on the way :confused: optical is a let down but i guess i can just plug my microsoft hd-dvd in to it ;)
 
whats the deal with windows xp support werent microsoft meant to be stopping support for it?

just saw the price of these desktops they seem like excellent value for money


edit ps massive bumpage lol
 
The Eee Box is effectively a headless notebook with no keyboard/mouse. In fact, the new version of the Eee PC features the exact same hardware configuration as the Eee Box - just in notebook form. Using notebook components in a “desktop” PC is nothing new, Apple does it all the time with the majority of its machines. The iMac uses a mobile CPU, as does the Apple TV, despite neither one being a notebook....

The Eee Box uses the desktop implementation of the Intel Atom processor which signifies two things: 1) it uses a desktop chipset, in this case the 945G, and 2) the Atom’s FSB is fused to run in GTL mode and not the lower power CMOS mode.

By using the 945G chipset instead of Poulsbo (the mobile Atom chipset), we lose support for one key feature: hardware H.264/MPEG-2/VC1 decode acceleration. Modern desktop chipsets from AMD and NVIDIA both support full decode of all three of these formats, but nothing from Intel. The Intel G45 chipset is supposed to change things but it is neither available nor cheap enough to be used in something like the Eee Box (the same goes for the AMD/NVIDIA offerings).

Without hardware decode assist for any of the HD video codecs the Eee Box’s Atom processor is left to do all decoding on its own, and unfortunately it’s not fast enough to decode any high bitrate HD video. In our testing we found that the 1.6GHz Atom was fast enough to decode a 4.5Mbps 720p H.264 stream at around 90% CPU utilization; anything more complex and we started seeing dropped frames. 1080p HD movies are completely out of the question. The CPU is fast enough to play 720p XviD/DivX however.

Processing power issues aside, the Eee Box simply lacks the appropriate outputs to make this a viable HTPC. There’s a single DVI output on the back of the Box and a single analog audio output as well; without support for HDMI or digital audio the Eee Box can hardly be considered for any HTPC applications.


http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321&p=1
 
thinking about getting the gf one of these as she uses pc for itunes,msn and internet nothing more really seems like a good deal tbh

any reasons why not? she wouldnt use it as a media centre nor does she want for or care about hd.
 
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