Currently have a Phenom X4 / 6450 combo for my HTPC. The performance is decent for what I need but the cabinet its in rivals the easybake oven, so while I'm upgrading the setup I'm going to choose a new GPU from my pile.
Now I just started doing some steam in-home streaming on my HTPC and have to say I'm really loving this feature, and started expanding the gaming a bit on my HTPC. I will stream anything GPU intensive but if something older can run natively I'd rather do that, obviously.
Of these cards, which would be the best GPU for this type of setup?
Quadro 600
keep my current 6450
use the onboard HD2000 from the new i3 setup
The quadro is obviously not a gaming card I'd buy but I found this in a discarded system. Spec wise its double the performance of my current 6450 on the same process tech (40nm) and the TDP numbers are similar between the cards. Are the drivers going to mess me up here in HTPC/gaming use?
Is there some other factor I'm not seeing that I should go with the HD2000 onboard graphics instead? It seems the low end discrete cards have more grunt but since the HD2000 is newer I'm not sure if I'd be missing out on some new feature set I'm not aware of.
Now I just started doing some steam in-home streaming on my HTPC and have to say I'm really loving this feature, and started expanding the gaming a bit on my HTPC. I will stream anything GPU intensive but if something older can run natively I'd rather do that, obviously.
Of these cards, which would be the best GPU for this type of setup?
Quadro 600
keep my current 6450
use the onboard HD2000 from the new i3 setup
The quadro is obviously not a gaming card I'd buy but I found this in a discarded system. Spec wise its double the performance of my current 6450 on the same process tech (40nm) and the TDP numbers are similar between the cards. Are the drivers going to mess me up here in HTPC/gaming use?
Is there some other factor I'm not seeing that I should go with the HD2000 onboard graphics instead? It seems the low end discrete cards have more grunt but since the HD2000 is newer I'm not sure if I'd be missing out on some new feature set I'm not aware of.