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<blockquote data-quote="doublej" data-source="post: 159701" data-attributes="member: 52902">It is a very interesting question.&nbsp; For simple movie playback - the graphics processing demand is actually very low indeed, you won't encounter any problems at all with on board GFX - providing you have a reasonble CPU, mem and disk.&nbsp;&nbsp; As pointed out elsewhere - it's you're core CPU that takes the load in the abscence of daughter board graphics processing,Dedicated GPU's only come into their own when intense real time rendering&nbsp; of graphics&nbsp; is required.....which can be in games, or drawing software.&nbsp; Such occaisions are likely when the CPU is busy with other stuff, networking, media management, or some such, and is more happy to offload to the GPU the keep the 'core' system running smoothly.Typically a pure bred HTPC doesn't cause any such load.&nbsp; And so there is a strong argument for leaving them out.Have I got one&nbsp; ?Yes....cos I found a&nbsp; silent Gigabyte 7600 GS for about 100 bucks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doublej, post: 159701, member: 52902"] It is a very interesting question. For simple movie playback - the graphics processing demand is actually very low indeed, you won't encounter any problems at all with on board GFX - providing you have a reasonble CPU, mem and disk. As pointed out elsewhere - it's you're core CPU that takes the load in the abscence of daughter board graphics processing, Dedicated GPU's only come into their own when intense real time [I]rendering[/I] of graphics is required.....which can be in games, or drawing software. Such occaisions are likely when the CPU is busy with other stuff, networking, media management, or some such, and is more happy to offload to the GPU the keep the 'core' system running smoothly. Typically a pure bred HTPC doesn't cause any such load. And so there is a strong argument for leaving them out. Have I got one ? Yes....cos I found a silent Gigabyte 7600 GS for about 100 bucks. [/QUOTE]

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