Is the machine up to it?

[Mattw]

I have a shuttle SN41G2 barebones lieing around with an AMD athlon 2500+ and 512MB Pc3200 ram, its using the onboard geforce 4 at the moment but is missing a hard drive.

Would this machine, perhaps with a better graphics card be able to handle playing HD media, essentially becoming my media centre?

Thanks

 

[Mattw]

I wonder if a better graphics card would deal with 1080p then, is it the graphics card that would make the difference?