Hei all, Im looking around to fint a htpc or mediacentre pc for my livingroom. Im going to use it for video and music streaming from my Nas server. The other day i remembered my old computer so i cranked it ut and installed win7 pro. The specs are:: Asus K8N-e Deluxe mainboard AMD athlon 64 3200+ CPU 1500 Mb pc3200 (DDR400) DDR RAM 7200 RPM 500GB Harddrive GeForce 6800 256Mb video\graphics card This computer setup will NOT play HD material from my camcorder (1080i) smoothly. But the audio came smooth and video was choppy. So what does it take for this motherboard to play HD? I played around with OC just for fun. It did actually help a bit but it was still not good. The CPU is working at 100% under the video playback according to the Task manager. So i wonder if i could change the video card to boost the HD playback? A problem is that im limited to a AGP card because of the old motherboard... so what do you think? is there a chance? Thank you all Cato
Nah, a media center should work flawlessly and delays ain't that entertaining as you may know. I would save up for a new PC. Won't be that expensive if you don't want to play games on it.
