Neil
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Registered: 2nd Nov 03
Location: Newcastle Drives: E46 MSport Coupe
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I'm building a media centre pc for my parents, but it's been years since I've built anything media wise (I have 2 of my own that are now a bit dated and don't like full 1080p hd).
Anyway, was wondering if you guys might beable to help.. will onboard graphics from a motherboard that has HDMI out (such as: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/200985) beable to output full 1080p HD? or will I need a dedicated HD graphics card to do that?
Basically trying to build them something that looks good and can play full HD, but for not a huge amount of money, probably £300-400 max, so being able to output full HD with onboard graphics on a mobo would be a big help, but as I say I have no idea
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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If you get the right onboard graphics you will be fine i.e. I have a Atom with the ION2 and it does all the decoding onboard. It will play full bluray 1080p without any problems.
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ssj_kakarot
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yeah that will work fine, tbf if you use coreAVC codec to decode HD files you can get away with a lot less spec wise.
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Neil
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Registered: 2nd Nov 03
Location: Newcastle Drives: E46 MSport Coupe
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Great! that's the codec i already use on my media centres. Cheers
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