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Red October HQ Min. Hardware Requirements
pcstockton:
So the obvious question is...... especially with bluray players becoming small and cheap... why doesn't someone put an ACTUAL BluRay player in a PC? Not a BluRay optical drive, but a full fledged player with its own video and audio outs??
I have always wondered this since DVD drives came into the computer world.
-patrick
Sparks67:
--- Quote from: Audioseduction on May 10, 2012, 04:36:44 pm ---I don't think the PC technology is not there yet in matching video quality with a med to high-end BD player. After configuring a HTPC using one of the fastast nvidia card a GTX 580 I feel it's still no match for my BD player. I just won’t sacrifice high quality video for convenience.
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Depends on which software player that you are using. I have built 3 HTPC, and actually my first HTPC with the ATI 4890 did better in terms of video quality than my Nvida. My first one was in 2008, but audio quality was the main problem for viewing movies. Nvidia is developing some new video cards that should be better in the future. Although, I admit that my system now has 3 Sony 7000ES blu-ray changers, and HTPC server. The problem was that audio quality was a major issue (HDMI) with the video cards in the past.
Audioseduction:
I have the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 TI which is performing excellent for both video and sorround sound audio. I guess my BD player will end up with a bunch of cobwebs now doing nothing. :)
InflatableMouse:
How much of ROHQ uses GPU hardware accelleration?
I own a ASRock ION 3D Series, as far as I'm concerned it plays ROHQ with CPU to spare. I'm not sure how to check if its dropping frames, but I think I'm quite sensitive to things like that; video seems to play as smooth as it does on normal and with other applications.
Quick Specs:
* Intel® Atom™ D525 Dual core Processor
* Mobile Intel® ICH8M chipset
* 2GB DDR2 800MHz
* NVIDIA® GT218-ION Graphics, NVIDIA® 3DTV Play Capable
* 7.1 CH HD Audio with DTS
Audioseduction:
My new HTPC I just setup yesterday. Just rocks! ;D
Custom DELL XPS 8500
* 3rd Gen Intel Core i7-3770 processor 3.40 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.90 GHz
* 16GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
* 1TB SATA Hard Drive 7200 RPM
* Blu-ray Drive
* EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD Superclocked Video Card - 1280MB GDDR5
* Ultra X4 750-Watt Modular Power Supply
* Windows 7 Pro 64bit OS
2 Drobo s each populated with 5 3TB 7200 RPM Hard Drives. Drobos are connected to the HTPC via USB 3.0 ports. Each Drobo unit is setup as RAID5 and are mirrored for backup purpose.
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