SN85G- Does I Has The Power

[DuncyBoy]

Run a Shuttle SN85G with an Athlon 2800, 1GB RAM, 250GB Seagate, DVD-ROM and a Hauppauge PVR-150 for my HTPC with MCE 2005.

I currently have a Radeon 9600 Pro and am considering an AGP 2600 Pro for Avivo HD playback.

They seem to tick all the boxes EXCEPT- power. The Shuttle has a wee 240PSU- do you think, playing back HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, would stress it too much with the above card?

I have a P4 Mobo, CPU, RAM and a 330w Seasonic PSU I can put in a HTPC case no worries, but I'd like to stick with my Shuttle. I have had it about 4 or 5 years and it's been top. I'm rather fond of the wee chap

 

[FrankJH]

I personally think it would struggle alll around even if the shuttle powered the new ATI card fully. Here is why.


In Feb this year I had a X360 HD-DVD drive connected to a 2GHz C2D shuttle with 2 Gb of Ram etc and an X1950. With the software available at the time (Power DVD Ultra and latest drivers) it still struggled pretty badly.

I know the 2600 takes away a lot of the decoding but I still believe the CPU has to do quite a bit (otherwise why would PDVD Ultra have a CPU check also)

It would be interesting to find out, but with the cost of the card, and PowerDVD Ultra being around £70 I seem to recall, its getting pretty expensive if it doesnt work (Im guessing you are going to use this software, or there may be other options now for this)

 

[DuncyBoy]

Thanks for the reply, Chief

I think what I'll do is get a 2600 Pro AGP and try it. If it doesn't work I can always add it to the old P4 or even a C2D set-up with an AGP board.