[sem2006]

Hi:

I'm considering building a system for XBMC taking advantage of some components i have here. The system will be used for media playback, some web browsing and google earth (for the fun).

I have an AMD Athlon II 270U CPU which i'm not using, and a total of 4GB of RAM available. The idea was to mount this using a AMD 880G chipset mini-itx motherboard. Now, the question is: will the 880G chipset be able to handle 1080p high bitrate mvk? Will this system work ok? Or i'm i get stuttering and jerky video playback?

Regards.

[DavidT99]

Hi:

I'm considering building a system for XBMC taking advantage of some components i have here. The system will be used for media playback, some web browsing and google earth (for the fun).

I have an AMD Athlon II 270U CPU which i'm not using, and a total of 4GB of RAM available. The idea was to mount this using a AMD 880G chipset mini-itx motherboard. Now, the question is: will the 880G chipset be able to handle 1080p high bitrate mvk? Will this system work ok? Or i'm i get stuttering and jerky video playback?

Regards.

Can you add a GPU? Something like a AMD HD6450 will work for very little cost and it will give you an HDMI port.

David

[sem2006]

The idea was to use a mini-itx case, so adding a GPU is not possible. The motherboards have i'm considering have HDMI output, so what would i gain from using HMDI from a external GPU?

[aptalca]

my guest bedroom htpc is on a 780g (HD3200) and it plays everything with DXVA2 on windows.

without dxva2, it stutters with high bitrate, but that's due to my cpu also being slow (athlon x2 64 5000)

[sem2006]

I've done some tests with the AMD 270U processor and a 880 chipset motherboard, and all 1080p movies played fine