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Red October HQ Min. Hardware Requirements

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pcstockton:
I just bought an ASRock CoreHT 252B - i5, Sandy Bridge without any other discrete card. 4gb ram.  No SSD yet but I will.

It is all mobile type components a la Mac mini.

I can playback Bluray from disc or rip, and 720p DVDs from disc or rip, without ANY issues.  I am rolling ROHQ with custom setting to send the audio to an M-Audio Transit (usb-to-toslink) then on to the Yamaha 5.1 receiver.  No bitstreaming and Im not even sure what that means.  I use the toslink output to my DAC

Suffice it to say, if you aren't interested in gaming, any build with an i3 or i5 sandy bridge will do you just fine.

I cant speak to 3D or gaming as I do neither.

My PC is 99% a source for my Naim DAC.  A few videos now and then are nice.  No problems in any way with my new htpc.

Scored it for $590 on newegg.  Open box.

The diff between an i5 and an i3 is like $60.  If you are building your own get an i5.

DISCLAIMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I know very little about computers (on this level).

Cheers!
Patrick

texneus:
"I can playback Bluray from disc or rip, and 720p DVDs from disc or rip, without ANY issues."

What about 1080i broadcast material?  IME 1080p from BRD really isn't a challenge.  1080i has the added need to deinterlace and IVTC, both of which have caused me much consternation in the past.

pcstockton:
Don't know on that one.  For me video is far too complex and confusing not to use a Cable Box with DVR for my "TV" needs.

texneus:
I can appreciate that!  I've built 3 HTPCs over the years and video has always been by far taken the most significant effort to make work right.  Sometimes something as simple as a driver revision makes or breaks everything :'(.  I do appreciate the feedback though!

Audioseduction:
After a bit of learning curve I managed to setup my HTPC to play back both DVD & Blu-Ray with same excellent picture quality as my dedicated BD player.  :D

UDATE UPDATE UPDATE!

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