Notebook Pentium M 1,3 Ghz / Nvidia Geforce 4 420 as thin client? (1 Viewer)

[The_Stig]

Hi,

I have a hugely old Notebook (Samsung X10 1300) lying around here. Its got one of the first centrinos in it (1,3 Ghz) and a Geforce 4 420 as graphics card.

Would this be possibly powerful enough for plain SD-Content over Lan? I am asking before trying before I need to reinstall the thing if there is any chance it works.

Maybe someone has tried similar crazy stuff and report back.

Thanks

 

[Spragleknas]

Might be sufficient regarding power, but I'm pretty sure that the gfx is not DX9-capable (I believe that the nVidia FX-5000 series was the first DX) cards from nVidia).

 

[The_Stig]

Damnit. This could be a problem with DX9...googling it now.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I would just install MP, run and see if it will scroll smoothly through the menu's without any config being done.

Remember a few months ago, one guy was running a MX4000 card with MP, again should not have worked, but he was happy it did

Whats the onboard gpu memory, if only 64mb, then I do not think it will work, 128 might just be fine.

 

[The_Stig]

Yeah, mine isnt DX9 capable. And if I remember correct, ist has only 32MB RAM. Scary...

 

[The_Stig]

Could be quite a nice server, should be power efficient...but tvcards via usb? Me don't like...

 

[The_Stig]

Just in case anyone is interested: it works!

I am quite surprised, but streaming sd-tv and watching sd-series is working just fine. cpu-usage around 60% with MPC-Codec. HD won't work stutterfree, but that was expected. Even menu is scrolling relatively smooth.

This shows how low resource requirements of MP are currently. Great work guys!

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Amazing, definitely thought it would not even load