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<blockquote data-quote="PLeblanc" data-source="post: 16729" data-attributes="member: 11495">There is a new aopen board with component out too, but it is 915g (intel integrated) graphics.&nbsp; And it needs a pentium m chip, which is costly, and doesn't do video stuff well, from what I read.&nbsp; It may show video well, but changing your mpeg2 to mpeg4 may be processor intensive.&nbsp; Apparently, the intel integrated chip doesn't have much power, graphically speaking.There is a volari card (v3xt?&nbsp; search the boards for volari, or look on newegg.com) that has a low profile component out.&nbsp; But then you need agp.&nbsp; Most modern boards have pci xpress rather than agp, so if you want a cool chip (like the venice or san diego, with 90mm cores and cooler runs) then you are out of luck, because they aren't on agp mobos.The x300 apparently has component out sometimes (like the card from club), and that is even pci express, but then again, if you get an xpress200 mobo, that has essentially the same chip, but with an integrated graphics chip for free, what is the gain?&nbsp; MSI has a pretty good m-atx board with that, from what I hear.&nbsp; But from the benchmarks I've seen, it get's only about 1/2 the performance of some other board with the&nbsp; dedicated (x300) board.&nbsp; 14 fps for doom 3 vs 30 fps for a discrete x300.&nbsp; But doom 3 is asking a lot from an integrated graphics processor.&nbsp; And for your htpc, you probably aren't looking for doom 3 performance.nvidia will release a board later this year with an integrated chip based on the 6200 that may have better integrated graphics performance, but you have to wait until q3 (hopefully).&nbsp; It *may* be about 150% to 200% the performance of the xpress 200, but without having a board to check, that is just speculation based on the boards out there.I want low power consumption, which the integrated chips have (IGP), but there's nothing out now that handles hi-def mpeg well (as far as I understand.) caveat :&nbsp; (The x300 does have dxva, but I see nothing about the xpress 200 that claims to have dvxa)That is my brain dump, and I hope it helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PLeblanc, post: 16729, member: 11495"] There is a new aopen board with component out too, but it is 915g (intel integrated) graphics. And it needs a pentium m chip, which is costly, and doesn't do video stuff well, from what I read. It may show video well, but changing your mpeg2 to mpeg4 may be processor intensive. Apparently, the intel integrated chip doesn't have much power, graphically speaking. There is a volari card (v3xt? search the boards for volari, or look on newegg.com) that has a low profile component out. But then you need agp. Most modern boards have pci xpress rather than agp, so if you want a cool chip (like the venice or san diego, with 90mm cores and cooler runs) then you are out of luck, because they aren't on agp mobos. The x300 apparently has component out sometimes (like the card from club), and that is even pci express, but then again, if you get an xpress200 mobo, that has essentially the same chip, but with an integrated graphics chip for free, what is the gain? MSI has a pretty good m-atx board with that, from what I hear. But from the benchmarks I've seen, it get's only about 1/2 the performance of some other board with the dedicated (x300) board. 14 fps for doom 3 vs 30 fps for a discrete x300. But doom 3 is asking a lot from an integrated graphics processor. And for your htpc, you probably aren't looking for doom 3 performance. nvidia will release a board later this year with an integrated chip based on the 6200 that may have better integrated graphics performance, but you have to wait until q3 (hopefully). It *may* be about 150% to 200% the performance of the xpress 200, but without having a board to check, that is just speculation based on the boards out there. I want low power consumption, which the integrated chips have (IGP), but there's nothing out now that handles hi-def mpeg well (as far as I understand.) caveat : (The x300 does have dxva, but I see nothing about the xpress 200 that claims to have dvxa) That is my brain dump, and I hope it helps. [/QUOTE]

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