I'm shortly going to be building my new HTPC using an Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard. It uses onboard graphics (ATi X700 Graphics) will this be enough to drive Vista and Vista MCE or should I invest in a low end dedicated Graphics Card? I do want to playback HD Content every so often.
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Onboard GFX Vs. Graphics Card - HTPC
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i just picked up a 2400pro 128mb 64bit mem interface card for 25 quid for a mate who wants to do nothing on the pc other than have it play back films for him. deffo worth getting either a 2400pro or 8500gt which ever is the cheapest you can find to do hardware accelerated video decoding.
The onboard X700 will do very nicely, my HTPC uses onboard 6100 and can do 1080p with 5.1 audio just fine.
HTPCs are more about CPU grunt than anything, mine has an AM2 X2 3800+ and that copes easily.
If you plan to use HD-DVD or Blu-Ray in the future though, you'll need to invest in a HDCP GPU.
HTPCs are more about CPU grunt than anything, mine has an AM2 X2 3800+ and that copes easily.
If you plan to use HD-DVD or Blu-Ray in the future though, you'll need to invest in a HDCP GPU.
I'm not planning on going down that route with my HTPC as I've got my eye on the new samsung bluray/hd-dvd player for that. I've got some 720p files that I want to play over the network (Gb) from my fileserver, as long as the x700 gfx can handle that then we're cooking
Shouldn't have any problems with this hopefully! It's going to be running a C2D E6420 (2.13 GHz 4MB Cache)
More than enough.
