What component of your HT makes you sad/is the best? - Blu-ray Forum

Iceman_II · 12-23-2007, 07:09 AM

Blissfully happy with the PS3
Happy with the TV - Mitsu WD-73733
Happy with the main speakers - Polk RTi 12's
Satisfied for now with the Receiver and the rest of the speakers.

Unhappy as hell with the HTPC... been working on building it for the past week and a half, been through 2 motherboards, and on the second freakin' video card. - The first MB had Northbridge "issues" and the onboard ATI graphics were atrocious. I tried another high end ATI card, and I was benchmarking framerates around 1.5fps

Took back the ATI card and exchanged it for an Nvidia 8600gt - STILL CRAPPY FRAMERATES on 1080p MKVs Changed out the MB to an ABIT, and went with an evga 8600gts card, the benchmarks are still MUCH lower than my tower with its lowly 7600GT card, but better than the previous settups.

Granted, I made a concious decision to NOT put a really fast processor in the box, because I really don't think processor speed should play that much with video playback, it should most all be handled by the GPU, My tower, with wicked high benchmarks has an intel duo-core overclocked to 2.5GHz and the 7600gt board, while the HTPC has an athlon duo-core at 1.9GHz and the 8600gts board.

The HTPC plays 720p MKVs fine, it only craps out on 1080p MKVs, while the tower plays both without a hitch... I guess the next step is to get a faster processor

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12-23-2007, 07:09 AM	#6
Iceman_II Expert Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Ft. Worth Home Theater Gallery:2 Blu-ray collection:308 Blu-ray reviews: 4	Blissfully happy with the PS3 Happy with the TV - Mitsu WD-73733 Happy with the main speakers - Polk RTi 12's Satisfied for now with the Receiver and the rest of the speakers. Unhappy as hell with the HTPC... been working on building it for the past week and a half, been through 2 motherboards, and on the second freakin' video card. - The first MB had Northbridge "issues" and the onboard ATI graphics were atrocious. I tried another high end ATI card, and I was benchmarking framerates around 1.5fps Took back the ATI card and exchanged it for an Nvidia 8600gt - STILL CRAPPY FRAMERATES on 1080p MKVs Changed out the MB to an ABIT, and went with an evga 8600gts card, the benchmarks are still MUCH lower than my tower with its lowly 7600GT card, but better than the previous settups. Granted, I made a concious decision to NOT put a really fast processor in the box, because I really don't think processor speed should play that much with video playback, it should most all be handled by the GPU, My tower, with wicked high benchmarks has an intel duo-core overclocked to 2.5GHz and the 7600gt board, while the HTPC has an athlon duo-core at 1.9GHz and the 8600gts board. The HTPC plays 720p MKVs fine, it only craps out on 1080p MKVs, while the tower plays both without a hitch... I guess the next step is to get a faster processor

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