HP Proliant GPU?

GiraffePencils · 21 Sep 2015 at 09:39

Hi All,

I have the HP Proliant Gen8 and I was wanting to run Kodi on it and use it as a media center.
I'm told I need a GPU for it, and I was wondering if anyone can suggest a small GPU that'll fit in and ideally not cost a bomb

I'll mainly be watching dvds through it, on a 1080p screen.

Thanks,

ZXSpectrum · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:37

All of the gen8 Microservers use the Intel HD Graphics. Both are the same speed so there should not be a problem at all using as a HTPC. Just to let you know, I use an Intel NUC NUC5CPYH for daily computer useage and a HTPC for Kodi and it works fine. I don't think I have had any issues playing anything over the network. I have tried 1080p uncompressed and it was perfect. And the GPU in that system is half the performance and speed of the one in the Microserver.

The older versions like the N36L/N54L had very poor integrated graphics as they were just a very low powered dual core AMD version of the Atom so needed a discreet gpu. This is no longer the case.

Hope that helps

GiraffePencils · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:42

hmm,
I tried a KodiBuntu install last night and it complained that it needed hardware accelerated Opengl and to refer to the hardware guide.
I had a quick google and people were talking about GPU driver updates, so I assumed I needed one.
Maybe the distro I was using was not right?

I'm not the best with all things linux :/

ZXSpectrum · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:52

Ah apologies I didn't realise you meant the full on Kodi as I either use with Windows or Openelec with Kodi. That might be a good option to try as they tend to have a "Catch All" install of Openelec that caters for most Chipsets/graphics/cpus.

Try the one on the top left under Generic Builds

GiraffePencils · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:56

Alright, I'll give that a go.
My Linux experience is Debian or Ubuntu, so I saw the KodiBuntu and went with that

I'm just messing around right now as I've not got drives yet so don't have much to do, was just hoping to set it all up.

ZXSpectrum · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:10

I am the same really, some of the guys I work with know what they are doing. That said normally, once you have Kodi on there up and running you rarely have to do anything with it. I downloaded the Arctic MC001 version of Openelec and it worked straight out of the box but even the newer version shouldn't be an issue.

GiraffePencils · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:13

I tried the generic Openelec and it complained about hardware compatibility again.
I've gone the long route now and have Ubuntu on it and I'll put kodi on top and see how that goes.

Drives still aren't here, so I've got lots of time to fiddle around with it