Whats the cheapest Mini itx board that plays HD video?

Spooter · 9 Dec 2009 at 09:12

Whats the cheapest Mini itx board that plays HD video?

I was hoping for something around £60 but struggling to find anything.

dtokez · 9 Dec 2009 at 11:22

im quite interested to know aswel. cant seem to see much under £100 mark that is advertised as being HD able

lsg1r · 9 Dec 2009 at 11:32

Probably the Point of View ION-MB230 which can be had for about £90 quid although personally I'd pay the extra £10-20 for the 330 version. It's atom 230, nvidia ion and also has a pci express slot.

dtokez · 9 Dec 2009 at 16:11

would the atom 230 handle HD ok? I thought you wopuld probably need the dual core version such as the asus board etc?

cheers

lsg1r · 9 Dec 2009 at 18:34

the cpu wouldn't but the gpu can, the ion is basically a geforce 9400 which has full dxva support in win7, h264 is natievely decded when used something like powerdvd (blu ray) and it's supported by flash 10.1 when it comes out with gpu acceleration

dtokez · 10 Dec 2009 at 00:35

thanks mate, i guess it would free up the processor nicely! what about decoding? would that be more cpu?

lsg1r · 10 Dec 2009 at 10:56

decoding would be gpu based (software allowing), encoding can be gpu accelerated with something like badaboom (nvidia's cuda partner sort of thing)