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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 765263" data-attributes="member: 83973">Personally I wouldn't consider any Intel integrated graphics earlier than the X4500HD series - the equivalent vintage ATi/AMD (or nVidia 8200/9200) integrated graphics are much more powerful, if you are looking for old machinery. GPU performance is much more critical for MP than CPU (unless it's really slow, but almost any dual-core CPU will be fine - I run an old C2D E4500 (2.2GHz) in my HTPC and that can cope with 1920 x 1080 @ 50Hz H264 decode in software (ffmpeg-mt)).Tony</blockquote>