Posted Feb 18, 2012 1:30 UTC (Sat) by s0f4r (guest, #52284)
In reply to: XBMC 11 "Eden" by twm
Parent article: XBMC 11 "Eden"
> "Those building a HTPC with XBMC in mind would be best served with an NVidia card."
Wholly disagree. I've been running xbmc 10.0 since forever on a plain core2duo with Intel GFX, and I have absolutely no problem playing 1080p content - my xbmc hooks into a mythtv backend which records & plays OTA DTV at 710p and 1080p.
Sure, it's not an ATOM, and the cpu takes 12-14% while playing the content, but it definitively does not need more oompf to just play any type of content.