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<blockquote data-quote="Wizzing" data-source="post: 581922" data-attributes="member: 101909">I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check &quot;My System&quot;. A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC.I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation).EDIT: I see u have a AMD Athlon XP 1600+, thats about equal to an intel Atom system. U have very little ram, I don't know the minimum but I guess 1 GB is the minimum you need. I would not upgrade this system but buy a new system. Buy an AMD combination, those are good and cheap. Buy a motherboard with the 785G chipset, those have the ATI Radeon 4200 onboard, which is good for full-HD. Buy a cheapass AM3 processor &amp; 2GB Ram and u have a nice starter set.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cpubenchmark.net/low_end_cpus.html" target="_blank">http://www.cpubenchmark.net/low_end_cpus.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wizzing, post: 581922, member: 101909"] I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check "My System". A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC. I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation). EDIT: I see u have a AMD Athlon XP 1600+, thats about equal to an intel Atom system. U have very little ram, I don't know the minimum but I guess 1 GB is the minimum you need. I would not upgrade this system but buy a new system. Buy an AMD combination, those are good and cheap. Buy a motherboard with the 785G chipset, those have the ATI Radeon 4200 onboard, which is good for full-HD. Buy a cheapass AM3 processor & 2GB Ram and u have a nice starter set. [url]http://www.cpubenchmark.net/low_end_cpus.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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