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motherboard to play 1080 video

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quartz0

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basic system (micro ATX asus+amd?) for 1080 mkv video please

so far;

8 years old athlon xp2400 system popped, wasnt in major upgrade mode so replaced with athlon xp3100 system, & geforce 3 upgraded to geforce 7600GS. has taken 1080 mkv files from bad to 90% ok.

so I think it's time for a major hardware upgrade (motherboard+cpu+ram < £200, maybe also the PSU etc)

concentrating mainly on the motherboard amd with integrated gfx, possibly

http://www.maplin.co.uk/asus-amd-3650-x4-apu-motherboard-kit--4gb-ddr3-memory-617603

http://www.maplin.co.uk/asus-amd-ap...dr3-memory-612772?c=froogle&u=612772&t=module

or maybe intel...

http://www.ecrater.co.uk/p/13673199/asus-f1a75-v-pro-fm1

http://t3custompcs.co.uk/asus-p8z68...-hdmidvi-p8z68-v-pro?language=en&currency=GBP

or another click
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-FX-41...oards_CPUs&hash=item2a188a17b3#ht_1227wt_1187

i relatively trust maplin

Would the integrated graphics in that be better than say a silent geforce GT440 ? (silent graphics card is the main thing, just dont want any noise from it - a mbd with passive cooling for chipset, with no fan). I'll also check benchmarks but just some quick yes's or no's would be useful 🙂

ie if those motherboards would be total overkill for 1080 mkv video, or no i'll definintely need a graphics card

the aim is that with a pci-e slot, if the onboard isnt up to it I can go for the gfx card


i've been unsuccessfully looking for some kind of product table (i'm out of date on whats new by about 8 years) so i can see where the buzzwords lie on the low/med/high performance range.
 
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I browsed through Maplin and they seem to have very limited choices. The information on the site is pretty messy and I can't tell whether the APU is a dual or a quad but I'm pretty sure that they're selling a dual. You don't really need a GPU to play movies unless you're into the DXVA enabled thing. You'll do just fine with a CPU, especially a strong one.

Intel Core i3 2100
Asus P8H61-M

I suggest getting these instead as it is better in the long run. I'm just giving the idea of what you need. If you could find better places that provide a similar but cheaper, then go for it. Although there is the 23 FPS issue with Intel's GPU, it shouldn't be that noticeable. The GPU on this is pretty bad but definitely very usable.
 
The AMD FX-4100 is definitely better if the program is able to take advantage of double the cores, that is IF. In terms of the single threaded performance, the Core i3 2100 is still the better choice till you overclock the FX-4100 at the expense of increased power consumption. In the case of playing a 1080P movie, having a Core i3 2100 or a FX-4100 makes very little difference.

Also note that the FX-4100 does not come with an IGP like the AMD APU or the Core i3 2100 that I mentioned so a discrete GPU is required. I can't do a comparison of that sound card as I do not own one but a reasonably good sound card will outperform any onboard sound.
 
great,thanks. so, the i3 (and AMD apu) have (is) a special graphics thing, that the fx-4100 doesn't?

ah..another edit...is the apu a "thing i want "🙂 and is there a list of what amd boards have the apu

edit looks like llano's have the apu/gpu
 
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An APU is just AMD's way of saying that it is a CPU and a GPU on the same unit as opposed to their previous offerings which only comes with a CPU. The Core i3 2100 is also like that but they're not adding special names just to add more confusion. These on die GPU are not on the motherboard.
 
I don't think you could classify the Phenom II as being overkill as demands for performance keeps rising. What is good today might not be good a few years from now. In terms of raw CPU performance, a quad Phenom II will outperform any Llano you could find and it will also outperform the FX-4100.

The GT 440 will outperform the HD6530 but when it comes to video playing in 1080P, it doesn't matter too much. In fact a lesser HD6310 on my AMD E-350 will handle playing 1080P .mkv with DXVA just fine, I've tested it. The only downside to having your GPU doing all the work is that it requires the supported format and certain codecs to get it working.
 
thanks so (price permitting, want to keep cpu/mbd/mem below £200)

for integrated amd i could go say a6, which would leave me with fairly fast cpu, graphics, and possibility of going to pci-e later

athlon II x2 or x4 bundle for medium cpu and pci-e gfx

phenom II x2 or x4 for high end cpu and pci-e gfx


by the look of the chart above the intel i3 would actually be as good as the fast phenom, and ebay comes up with some bundles at under £200

on that gaming hierarchy chart could you point which of the intel core 2 and core ix ones have integrated graphics ?
 
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For Intel you should no longer consider Core 2 processors, as that platform is many years old at this point. For what you claim you will be doing, the only choices I would recommend to you would be:

1) Low end dual core Intel socket 1155. The Core i3 2100 mentioned is a higher end dual core socket 1155. Lower end would include the Pentium 600 and 800 series, and the Celeron G530 or G540. Any of them should be fine for 1080P videos.

2) Any socket FM1 AMD APU.

Any of these can play 1080P whether through GPU acceleration on the AMD, or strictly CPU on the Intel. Flip a coin.
 
Cheers thanks. I'm using xp at the moment. This could only support 2 cpu's of any system i chose? (say i3, a6 or a8) so I could use xp with the i3, but not the a6/8 ? i'd need windows 7 to use all of the a6/8 ?
 
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