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Posted by biznology on Dec-12-2008 10:50:

Htpc

so my current computer is a custom beater p4 2.4 on a basic Gigabyte matx mobo with no AGP slot for video. my question is, does anyone think i can pick up an older/cheap socket 478 with a 2/4x agp, and a slightly decent video card and more mem (1gb-2gb) and expect this to function as an HTPC, mostly - will this play HD content? assuming the vid card is reasonable?

i am gonna build a serious computer early next year, most of the stuff i am looking at is here:

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/P...Number=11375328

obviously this would do fine, but is there a decent way to use my old stuff for media, easy way to connect the new machine (across the room).

i will have a 360 that could work as an extender, but i heard that the media needs to be on a FAT32 drive...

any thots?

Posted by bluE_Neon on Dec-26-2008 15:54:

Re: Htpc

quote:
Originally posted by biznology
so my current computer is a custom beater p4 2.4 on a basic Gigabyte matx mobo with no AGP slot for video. my question is, does anyone think i can pick up an older/cheap socket 478 with a 2/4x agp, and a slightly decent video card and more mem (1gb-2gb) and expect this to function as an HTPC, mostly - will this play HD content? assuming the vid card is reasonable?
any thots?

No AGP slots have been configured for an HDCP/HDTV support. PCi-ex is todays news. AGP's are obsolete and the last of its kind that worked superior was the Geforce 7800GS which I own. You can buy an DVI to HDMI converter cheaply but that won't be near by any means to real HD quality as the source is DVI.