2012-02-02, 06:46
So with an upcoming purchase of a new home, i really want to rip all my DVD's (about 300+) and create my first HTPC system. Im still planning to use my Blu-Ray player for my Blu-Ray but i have a ton of box sets and movies on DVD not worth going to blu-ray.
Im getting great advice here on a potential system but one thing that strikes me... video cards
As I mentioned im just going to play my DVD's for now , so is it worth going with a high end vid card or one that is built in to the mb sufficient. HDMI of course.
considering the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
and using the built in Vid board (ATI Radeon HD 4290)
or should i go with a much better card? a stand-alone card (1 GB mem) ?
This would be an XBMC on top of Ubuntu 10.11 . I already have my gaming machine , so this build is strictly HTPC.
thanks in advance!
Im getting great advice here on a potential system but one thing that strikes me... video cards
As I mentioned im just going to play my DVD's for now , so is it worth going with a high end vid card or one that is built in to the mb sufficient. HDMI of course.
considering the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
and using the built in Vid board (ATI Radeon HD 4290)
or should i go with a much better card? a stand-alone card (1 GB mem) ?
This would be an XBMC on top of Ubuntu 10.11 . I already have my gaming machine , so this build is strictly HTPC.
thanks in advance!