Barebone cpu e gpu

[Xeo84]

Hi all i have a barebone with xp 3000+ but it's not able to play h264 movies!

If i buy a atom330 with radeon 3450 can i view 720p and 1080p h264 with no freeze??

Thanks!

[CWR03]

Video card has practically nothing to do with playing h264, and the Atom 330 is basically a boosted "smart phone" dual core processor, so I rather doubt it. I suspect it would be better, but not smooth.

[Xeo84]

thanks for the answer, but i read here:

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-6493-view-Atom-330-FullHD-1080p-benchmark.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/254852-28-play-atom

they says that it play 1080p!!!!
But i want to be sure otherwise i buy a core 2!

[Blue_MiSfit]

Well, if you buy a 3450, it will support DXVA, so you will get full hardware acceleration under Media Player Classic (provided the movies in question are encoded to support this)

-MiSfit

[deekey777]

VIDIA's Ion Platform: Bringing High Def to Netbooks (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3478)
For me it looks like: Atom + the right videocard = It's possible to watch HD movies.

But I think the HD4550 is a much better choice: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3420

[Xeo84]

Thanks for answers i think i will buy an atom with a 3450 or 4550 i will see!!!

[Caroliano]

Be sure to buy an PCI graphic card. Last time I checked, no Atom motherboard had an PCI-E slot.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Right, that would be the sticking point. Also, I've heard the Ion platform is very much on hold (perhaps due to shaky relations between nVidia and Intel over the whole SLI issue?).

Are there any PCI cards that do DXVA? I was suspicious about AGP having enough bandwidth, but PCI seems like a long stretch. [edit] after doing some research, the HD2400 PCI cards from AMD do not support decode acceleration in PCI implementations.

The nVidia 8400gs PCI seems to support it, but possibly not in a BluRay Player like PowerDVD. Apparently the arcsoft decoder does work.

Also, are there any Atom boards with the G35 / G45 IGP? AFAIK these support DXVA easily. Might be a much simpler solution.