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Please let this serve as the sister thread to the 720p
I currently run xbmc via Ubuntu 7.10 on a p4 3.2Ghz HT with 1GB of Ram. I have a Nvidia 7600GS Video Card.
Most 720P with AC3 plays back very nice. I can play 1080p but it is really really choppy. Figured it would fail with the P4 but tried anyways. So I have decided to upgrade my Systems. First I bought a popcorn hour a-110 but the interface if painful so I have sold it.
Here is my planned Hardware:
GIGABYTE GA-M78SM-S2H nVidia GeForce 8200
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 2MB Cache 89W Retail
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 2GB (2x1024)
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212
From my research this should be sufficient for 1080p I would just like to verify before I layout the cash.
Thanks JKing
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I'd imagine that'd get the job done.
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That setup will play 90% of 1080p content. Bumping up the clock to 3.3ghz will play 95% but i recomend going intel with a E8400. That will play 99% of 1080p standard clock with plenty of room to overclock. Intel is definatly worth the extra cash.
cheers
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XBMC does not use any gpu acceleration at all, so everything depends on the cpu. Menaing you'd just waste your money buying an expensive card for this purpose.
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Do these Nvidia cards output audio via HDMI? I read some other threads that indicated there are some limitations..
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Save money o RAM if you can, But previous AMD fan, Have tried way too many ADM x2 finally gave up and got the E8400, Plays All 1080p, even extreme tests. If you run live, like I do with just CD/DVD and pen drive for Live you only need 512MB ram, never seen my system using more than 400mb. uSING pny Nvidia 8500 card with dvi - hdmi on 65" DLP, see no difference to Blue ray
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I've just compiled the latest SVN that now uses dual cores and my HTPC can even playback the 'killa sample' at full speed whereas before it would run at about 16FPS.
This is it -
Dell Vostro 200 - Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33GHz - 2.00 GB RAM - Radeon HD 2400 graphics card
Hope that helps.
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2008-10-09, 20:07
(This post was last modified: 2008-10-09, 22:28 by djerock.)
Specs:
Motherboard ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2
RAM/Memory 2046MB RAM CORSAIR XMS2 2 GB (4 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Processor/CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, ~2.1GHz
Video Card(s) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO 512mb x2 SLI ........resolution 1920 by 1080
Sound Card SoundMAX HD Audio
Power Supply OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply
Case Antec Performance One P180 Silver cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Hard Drive(s) 3x WD 500GB SATA -HARD DRIVES,
Optical Drive(s) 2 Sony DRU-830A DVD-/+18x
Cooling Setup stock AMD
TV: VIZIO 46" 1080p LCD
(make sure you have the newest drivers installed for your video cards)
CPU usage is only at 10-20% now with the beta2 running at full 1080p @60hrz on a XP pc
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2008-10-10, 06:40
(This post was last modified: 2008-10-10, 06:43 by aaronb.)
Just adding a data point:
GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R with onboard Intel GMA3100
C2D E6750 @ 2.66GHz
2 GB RAM
Running Beta2 on Windows
I can play the "killa sample" at full speed with no dropped frames, CPU usage around 60%. This is outputting to my monitor at 1280x1024, haven't hooked it up to my TV because it's my main desktop.
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eQUIV
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I'm looking to build a xbmc mediacenter pc, I want to be able to run video at 1080i, is this system going to have enough power?
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ AM2,1MBx2,2.8GHz
Memory 1 Kingston 1GB DDR2 800 (KVR800D2N5/1G)
Memory 2 Kingston 1GB DDR2 800 (KVR800D2N5/1G)
Motherboard ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI (VGA&DVI,4DDR2,Hybrid CF,HDMI)
Video Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 512MB GDDR2 DVI-I VGA TV-OUT
Audio Onboard Audio
Network Card Onboard Network Card
Case Antec New Solution NSK1300 MicroATX Cube Case with 300W
I'll probably run a stripped down version of xp, so i'm not using alot of ram. I'll probably add a large harddrive and blu-ray drive later. Any help would be appreciated.
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OP here...
Well I setup my new MB and Proc... Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H with AMD 6000+
It runs fantastic, and plays 1080p perfect so far. I am looking for the killa sample to test but I am impatient and the torrent and rapidshare are excruciatingly slow.
Only problems are:
1. Integrate Sound Sucks Donkey Teste's, I am replacing with a Creative Labs card
2. Integrated Video is not well liked by Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid's Kernel 2.6.27.4 so I am using an NVidia 7600GS 256M until I decide to compile a custom kernel
3. No sound in Atlantis Beta2 for any video xvid, mkv (720 or 1080), ac3, DD, DD2 or DTS
I am going to assume 3 is related to the crappy integrated sound. If I still have problems with audio I will look into possibly pulseaudio problems, and/or intrepid 64bit problems. Audio works fine (with integrated audio) in all other forms but XBMC.
I will continue to test
JKing
. Even 1080p is plays absolutely fine.
