CPU and/or GPU upgrade for HD (1 Viewer)

[finwen]

I have decided to upgrade both CPU and GPU. Just need to decide to what i want now

I an thinking of a HD 4550 with heat sink.

CPU: No idea yet. Thinking of AMD Athlon X2 4850e or Intel Core 2 Duo E7300

Any other suggestion?

 

[stoked]

Waste of money upgrading both, especially if you're only doing media duty and no gaming. Cheapest route is HD4550 GPU or higher like HD4650, etc. If you going with a whole new motherboard you might as well grab a Nvidia 9300 chipset board with onboard GPU. I plays blurays without issues and has multichannel LPCM support over HDMI.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Nvidia 9300 chipset board with onboard GPU

Hmmm, and no driver issues too

 

[stoked]

Nvidia 9300 chipset board with onboard GPU

Hmmm, and no driver issues too

I'd like to see any vidcard/IGP that doesn't have driver issues. Even the ATI HD4550's have issues with missing video processing options and it seems to follow the EDID data from the display device strictly unlike Nvidia.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

We know the technical side about ATI graphics being superior to Nvidia, but the issue still remains, Nvidia gets less posts here than ATI, regarding how well their drivers behave by a factor of at least 50\1 (most MP users are ATI owners).

Team-Mediaportal knows exactly, what does and does not work correctly for both makes, typical post is this one https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/bug-preview-window-48348/
We also had this discusion in team forum too, ati had problems that nvidia owners could not duplicate (we have a good mix luckily).

Anyway back fully on topic

finwen, good luck with whatever you choose

 

[stoked]

We know the technical side about ATI graphics being superior to Nvidia, but the issue still remains, Nvidia gets less posts here than ATI, regarding how well their drivers behave by a factor of at least 50\1 (most MP users are ATI owners).

Maybe less Nvidia posts because there's less problems? Either way, both vendors drivers are buggy. Choose your poison. I'll be ordering 2 HD4550's for 2 seperate systems over the next week or so, the known HD4550 limitations aren't dealbreakers for me.

 

[eetaylog]

FYI:
If you want to continue using CoreAVC, then there is no reason to upgrade gfx, as CoreAVC uses CPU - only.

is that true?! im running a geforce 7600GS graphics card currently on directshow codecs, so if i used coreAVC when i move over to HD, will the codecs not work?

 

[finwen]

I did order the following so hd content should play fine in mediaportal i guess

1 PCS 361782 Asus P5QL-E, P43, Socket-775, DDR2,
ATX, GbLAN, ICH10R, PCI-Ex(2.0)x16

1 PCS 360396 Corsair Dominator TWIN2X8500C5D 4096MB,
DDR2,2x2GB(KIT),DHX,E.P.P, CL5-5-5-15-2T
1 PCS 366002 Intel Core™ 2 Duo E7300 2,66GHz,
Socket 775, 3MB, 1066MHz, Boxed w/Fan
1 PCS 404839 Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512MB GDDR3,
PCI-Express 2.0, DVI-I/HDMI, Heatsink

 

[christian80]

You don't need to buy such gaming hardware. I am using an Athlon64 X2 4200+ with 2GB and an ATI 2400Pro and It plays 1080p over HDMI with CPU usage the most time at 35%. You don't need faster hardware, but you should use a codec with hardware capability. The bigger GPUs do the same acceleration in the same speed, don't they? They improve only 3d gaming.