Re: [LUG] Low powered NAS box

[Tim Dobson <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/01/11 19:39, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 10/01/11 11:48, Paul Sutton wrote:
> > >
> > Do you need decent graphics hardware etc for a NAS box,
> >
> > Paul
>
> No but Graham was talking about running XBMC which is a media player
> application. A dual core Athlon can handle 720p HD video pretty easily
> but on the slower CPUs playing 1080p (i.e. FullHD video) can generally
> help with hardware acceleration.

I'd recommend AMD > Nvidia personally.
But I'd also recommend Intel > *

I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre running XBMC which is Intel graphics based 
and works beautifully in 1080p.

I'd suggest looking at picking up a second hand thinkcentres. My 
supplier [ignore the website] is www.greenh.co.uk

Tim

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