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RE: Specs are important for streaming HTPC

Posted by Gmood1 (A) on November 14, 2009 at 11:20:03

In Reply to: Specs are important for streaming HTPC posted by rl1856 on November 14, 2009 at 09:07:42:

I agree you do need some processor power. But not a huge amount. 2GB's of RAM should be plenty.

I use a Quad Core Dou 2.4GHz with a 1GB 256 Bit video card and 4 GB's of memory(way more than needed). I also have an HTPC with Dou core ..plenty as well. My CPU usage is 0% most of the time watching ripped Blurays or DVDs. It normally only spikes to 1 or 2% now at the most.You can use hardware acceleration since the introduction of DVXA. It helps by off loading the media intensive videos from the processors by utilizing more of the graphic card's memory. This can only be used by cards that are designed for it. Nvidia and ATI are the both manufacturing their cards for hardware acceleration.

Windows 7 comes with the codecs and underlining platform for this pre-installed.

Yeah my family finds it fairly easy using the PC for media. Its quite simple to do. That clicker.com is pretty damn awesome!! Thanks for the link Bullethead!

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