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I am looking at getting a motherboard/CPU combo at Tigerdirect. My budget is 150... I will need to run onboard video until I can buy a card. Can anyone give me a suggestion about board or combos from Tigerdirect? I have credit there so that is why I am shopping there.
Right now I am running
1.8 amd
256 mb ATI 9200se video card
1 gig of ram.
It will work but it is a little slow with 100 cpu usage. Will not run the newest XBMC beta.
Thanks,
Greg
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This is what I have picked out now. Will this work with the newest version of XBMC? Is this overkill?
ECS GF8200A Motherboard - v1.0, NVIDIA GeForce 8200, Socket AM2+, Audio, Video, HDMI, PCI Express 2.0, USB 2.0, eSATA, RAID
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ CPU - 2.20 MHz, Socket AM2+, 3200MHz HyperTransport Bus, 1MB L2 Cache, Retail Processor w/ Fan
Ultra Dual Channel 2048MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz Memory
Ordering today, if anyone could help.
Thanks
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Keep your current setup (if you have SSE3 for VDPAU
Get a GT210 or GT220 card. Don't waste your time with anything else.
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2009-12-31, 21:47
(This post was last modified: 2009-12-31, 22:05 by Haligan.)
Old board, does not have PCI express. Just AGP and PCI slots.
They have these PCI cards.
EVGA NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400 GT 1GB
PNY GeForce 8400GS
