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What's the consensus on GT 520 as opposed to GT 430??
In this guide GT 430 is recommended for 3D, but I believe GT 520 also has HDMI 1.4a and is cheaper and there are fanless low profile options. I guess it is supposed to be less powerful (64bit vs 128bit), but for an htpc, are there any advantages in going with a GT 430?
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eskro
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if your going to record live HDTV,
GT430 is better in de-interlacing 1080i content...
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Oh no, I won't have anything to do with live tv :-P
I cut the cable two years ago, and I have espn3 for international soccer (xbmc addon works really well) :-)
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Suven
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Hi,
I'm in Group 3 but additionally I want:
- A responsive XBMC-UI on Eden with many skins
- Be able to browse the web and play flash and/or HTML5 movies (like southpark.com)
- Emulate N64 and SNES
Would that match group 5 then?
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eskro
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i'd say yes, better to go GROUP #5
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I am running a Foxconn A7GM-S AMD 780G 5.2GT/s assisted by a Radeon HD 4670 with 1gb..what group am I in
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mcborzu
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I'm a Group #2:
Mostly SDTV with occasional 720 content..
Mostly just looking for a Kitchen HTPC, getting a little bored and frustrated by XBOX's limitations. My main question is does ATV2 handle lightwieght/medium skins like Confluence/Focus/Carmichael/Alaska well?
Check out Night - A Skin For XBMC
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2011-12-18, 16:06
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-18, 18:39 by nvcleemp.)
I appear to be in group #1, as I don't own a HDTV. I just have this old thing with only two SCART connections. It serves me well, so I'm not immediately planning to buy a new TV. However I understand that XBMC no longer supports Xbox, so what would be the recommendation these days?
A second thing I would like to ask is that maybe I would prefer to find a solution that prepares me for the future, i.e. it might very well be that my trusty old TV dies on me within the next year, so I would like a solution that I can use on my current TV with just the SCART connection (a S-video to SCART adapter is no problem) and that I could use in case I get a new HDTV. (I guess I would be in group #3 if I had a HDTV.)
BTW, I have a set of USB hard drives that I liked to keep using, but I guess most solutions will have some USB ports.