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On 12/01/11 20:53, Tim Dobson wrote:
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, PaulNo 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
What spec ThinkCentre is that?The P4 ones tend to be a bit power hungry. We use them where I'm contracting, overall I quite like them for their size and ease of use to get inside although I'd rather have a Core 2 Based one than a Pentium 4/D based one (although saying that the Core 2 models are getting to about 3 years old now so they're probably available reasonably cheaply).
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