Will this combo work properly together for HD acceleration?

undeclared

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The plan/idea would be to get an intel atom CPU+motherboard combo.. and a PCI card the HD 2400 pro 256 64-bit...

The question is, can I put 1080p on there, with stability?

Thanks
 

Falloutboy

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yeah stuff like blueray would prolly be fine. Where you'll run into issues is if your playing any "other" HD type movies which aren't compliant with the GPU acceleration. in all honesty though that atom + MB + VC will cost you about a hundred bucks. I would just get a cheap 780G MB and a BE-2400 for 106 from newegg. awesome HTPC combo.
 

s44

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No. The 2400pro couldn't handle 1080p. The next-gen version of that card (3450) was improved so it could, though.
 

Golgatha

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Yeap, the 2400 pro won't do the job. Any 3xxx or 4xxx series will. Anything at or better than a 2600 Pro also will get the job done. I have a passive 2600 Pro and it works great. I did have trouble with non-accelerated HD content with even with an E2160 at stock speeds. Even overclocked to 2.4Ghz, the E2160 was just barely capable at 1080p, which leads me to believe the Intel Atom just wouldn't be able to pull it off period; even with GPU acceleration, because my E2160@2.4Ghz only had 30-40% shaved off the system load with my 2600 Pro.

Now my E8400 at stock 3.0Ghz just laughs at 1080p and asks for something else to keep it busy.
 

Golgatha

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Originally posted by: xtwells
The plan/idea would be to get an intel atom CPU+motherboard combo.. and a PCI card the HD 2400 pro 256 64-bit...

The question is, can I put 1080p on there, with stability?

Thanks

BTW, do you mean PCI or PCI Express?