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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Tim Dobson <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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, >>> >>> 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 Interesting site. Do they use floss OSes? Roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq