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For high-quality video playback or recording, you will need to add a good quality graphics card to your HTPC setup.
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Have a read about Allwinner, Amlogic and other devices & development in the community section to see what is available.Your newly bought Home Theater PC or HTPC is incomplete without a proper video card.
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There are very cheap ARM devices that come with Android which can be booted with LibreElec or CoreELEC and much better value than the R-Pi. Yes, all the R-Pi devices IMO are overpriced here also, by the time you have case & PSU etc. Now I am preparing new Librelec machine for friends - I bought old ITX board with Celeron 1037U (for 12 USD) with HDMI output.
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Well, firstly I wanted to use RPi3, seemed liked the best way, but, in my country people are selling those for such an unreasonable price (and only RPis are sold here, nothing else of that kind), and when you actaully see how much I would spend on the gpu and psu for the old pc, it's much cheaper than buying a RPi, sure, RPi has other fuctions than just being used as a Kodi device, but that's all I need right now.Īnd I really don't need something to hold my stuff on a network, got one TV in the whole house so I don't really need anything special in that kind. You might be better served using the old PC as a server/NAS/backend for holding media files and maybe tuners - no need for any good graphics for that either and it can generally be managed remotely so it could be put out of the way where its size and noise won't interfere. I later used an old Dell dual core Pentium machine saved from the dump, as the backend, with the wee ARM device as the client at the TV. I had previously built a new HTPC and regretted how much I spent on it. I now use a $40 ARM device which runs Kodi fine. I am using it with small pico PSU (10 USD) and home-made 12V/8A switching supply (from spare part - 7 USD).įrom second-hand components this can be completed very cheaply.
I am using Intel G31+E8400, 1GB DDR2 800, Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR2 (complete consumption at the wall - idle 38W, burn 66W).
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Those CPUs can suprisingly with Libreelec handle common H265 HDR streams too (only up to full HD, of course - no 2k or 4k videos!). My experience confirms, that for everything in full HD is enough Core 2 Duo 2,66+ GHz or Core Quad 2,33+ GHz (more powerful is of course not a fault :-). NOTE: I'm not going to run anything higher than 1080p.Īlso, are those components supported by LibreELEC?įor fully supported HDMI output (with 1920x1080 px = Full HD) you need at least AMD Radeon HD 5xxx (or above) or nVidia GT 2xx (or above). Please, if somebody can try to help me decide which one I should get and why, also please recommend if there's a better gpu for this price range.Īlso, I'm not looking into something futureproof. Because it's a HTPC, I'm trying to keep the noise down, and then I want the GT630, but, being afraid of too low perfomance, I think of the GT730. I'm trying to decide between a GT730 (with a fan) and a GT630 (without a fan) for around the same price (☓0€). My question is.: because I'm short on cash, I'm looking for a NVidia GT 6/7 series. I'm planning to build a HTPC out of it (a really big one when looking at the mobo's size) and I'm sure about this current hardware, a quad core cpu and 4 gigs of ram will hopefully be enough to run Kodi. It's an Asus P5K-SE, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and a Q8200 2.33GHz Quad Core CPU. So I remembered that I have a old mobo with RAM and a CPU from my old PC.