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benareeno · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1614 Location: ottawa, canada

The model is x300 and it says it has hardware accel of mpeg 1/2/4, does this mean I can play any downloaded hd with hw accel? If so, could I not get away with a very cheap processor? If I bring a pc into the theater room, it will only be used for 1080i video...so hw accel should mean I need very little for a cpu, right?

Here are the specs of the card:

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx300/specs.html

Does ati work well with powerstrip should I need to run 1080i/72??

Mark_A_W · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

Yes.

Yes.

But get a HD series card.

benareeno · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1614 Location: ottawa, canada

why do I need an HD series?

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5238 Location: Osceola, Indiana

If you want to use it for Blu-ray or HD-DVD then you need a card that has HDCP support, I don't think the X300 does. For 1080i broadcast HD the card should be fine, what do you mean by "downloaded hd"?

Mike

Mark_A_W · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:25 am Post subject:

Arr me hearties...

benareeno · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1614 Location: ottawa, canada

you are referring to blu-ray discs or downloaded rips? I don't have a blu-ray disc player in the PC....but I do have a ps3 which I hope to also use.

Mark_A_W · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:10 am Post subject:

Oh, I forget.

No Gamma if you use hardware accel and an ATI card.