- Jan 3, 2006
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I posted earlier about a no easy solution to my dilema in the CPU forum.
I have a AMD X2 Brisbane, and a AMD 780G motherboard for a budget HTPC solution.
It does everything great. Boots Vista up speedily, plays BluRay hiccup free, everything seems snappy and responsive.
But....
I need to encode my DVD's to Divx or something so I can watch movies via Media Center Extenders like my Xbox 360, and save some space. PMP stuff would be nice occasionally, but that's not my concern as far as encoding goes.
Needless to say, encoding to a nice bitrate is very tasking on the CPU. AVIVO's utility for this is utter crap. It doesn't accelerate anything, and the GPU load is untouched. :|
I could stick a quad core Phenom in there, should make the process faster...but it's still CPU intensive. And I am stuck with a higher watt CPU.
Someone suggested nvidia's Badaboom. Problem is, popping a nvidia graphics card in my current setup takes the HDMI all-in-one out of the picture.
I looked up the badaboom req's and the 8200 is listed. I saw a Gigabyte and an ASUS micro ATX board that might do the trick.
1-H.264 HW decoding. check.
2-Badaboom compatible for fast and friendly encoding. check.
3-HDMI audio ouput. It's more robust than the 780G HDMI audio. Definite check.
For a paltry 80 bucks or so, are my problems solved?
Let me here your pros and cons of a 8200 based motherboard. Especially micro ATX.
TIA.
I have a AMD X2 Brisbane, and a AMD 780G motherboard for a budget HTPC solution.
It does everything great. Boots Vista up speedily, plays BluRay hiccup free, everything seems snappy and responsive.
But....
I need to encode my DVD's to Divx or something so I can watch movies via Media Center Extenders like my Xbox 360, and save some space. PMP stuff would be nice occasionally, but that's not my concern as far as encoding goes.
Needless to say, encoding to a nice bitrate is very tasking on the CPU. AVIVO's utility for this is utter crap. It doesn't accelerate anything, and the GPU load is untouched. :|
I could stick a quad core Phenom in there, should make the process faster...but it's still CPU intensive. And I am stuck with a higher watt CPU.
Someone suggested nvidia's Badaboom. Problem is, popping a nvidia graphics card in my current setup takes the HDMI all-in-one out of the picture.
I looked up the badaboom req's and the 8200 is listed. I saw a Gigabyte and an ASUS micro ATX board that might do the trick.
1-H.264 HW decoding. check.
2-Badaboom compatible for fast and friendly encoding. check.
3-HDMI audio ouput. It's more robust than the 780G HDMI audio. Definite check.
For a paltry 80 bucks or so, are my problems solved?
Let me here your pros and cons of a 8200 based motherboard. Especially micro ATX.
TIA.
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