2012-02-18, 20:15
assassin Wrote:I have an i3 2100 and a G620 and they both playback plenty "fluenty" on a DLP and LCD 1080p HDTV.As I said, I own/tried Nvidia GPU, AMD iGPU/GPU and Intel iGPU on my system; and I like AMD GPU the most.
I have also used and tested ATI and NVidia extensively. No difference.
My approach is simple... Start with the integrated GPU and if for any reason you aren't satisfied THEN add a discrete card. No real reason to recommend one up front as a "cure all" when in some/most cases it might not be needed.
DDDamian and I suggested AMD HD6450 to Voip-Ninja because we had good experiences with it. At the same time, Voip-Ninja is having hard time getting his i3/iGPU to work to his liking on his system. We thought that it is worth it for him to try another GPU using this XBMC patches on his system.
As you might have noticed, Daniela posted XBMC patches in here because she have good experiences with it on her system. Some others is not so lucky with it, but most do. Every system and configuration is different in many ways, it's hard to find any one solution to work on every system!