IVIYTH0S Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 The onboard on the 350 is more than enough for anything but gaming. Isn't it? Oh yeah, it's a beast. I was just saying, the atom platform doesn't have any place anywhere Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 The onboard on the 350 is more than enough for anything but gaming. Isn't it? it is as long as you're not streaming High Definition content from the like of Netflix.... they use Silverlight and for some reason it doesnt work well on the E-350s... its laggy and choppy. but as long as you dont use Silverlight it pretty much handles anything. @ IVIYTH.... yes this is true...on the TVs I have that use HDMI the onboard is more than fine... on my old RPTV I needed a card just for S-Video Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 Netflix almost bogs down on a decent X3 720, so I can imagine slower chips would really cause issues. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuJuMaN89 Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 ok so that mobo/cpu should be able to handle 3d blurays and also rip/burn blurays too rite? also i was just thinking, i already have a samsung smart tv and the only reason i was getting this HTPC was to rip blurays to it so i dont have to keep loading bluray movies each time i want to watch them and also burn some home vids and crap to blurays, so would i just be better off getting a NAS to store all my movies on and use my samsung smart TV to access that NAS, and just buy an external bluray burner for my laptop to rip/burn them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 it is as long as you're not streaming High Definition content from the like of Netflix.... they use Silverlight and for some reason it doesnt work well on the E-350s... its laggy and choppy. but as long as you dont use Silverlight it pretty much handles anything. @ IVIYTH.... yes this is true...on the TVs I have that use HDMI the onboard is more than fine... on my old RPTV I needed a card just for S-Video I'll have to try netflix streaming, I don't recall having any issues with it on my E-350. I'm 99% sure I've used it for NF streaming before and didn't have any issues. Nothing special with mine, just 4GB SoDIMM and a 64GB SSD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuJuMaN89 Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 ok so that mobo/cpu should be able to handle 3d blurays and also rip/burn blurays too rite? also i was just thinking, i already have a samsung smart tv and the only reason i was getting this HTPC was to rip blurays to it so i dont have to keep loading bluray movies each time i want to watch them and also burn some home vids and crap to blurays, so would i just be better off getting a NAS to store all my movies on and use my samsung smart TV to access that NAS, and just buy an external bluray burner for my laptop to rip/burn them? any1? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 I'd just rip the movies on your laptop. A low power HTPC won't encode video very quickly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuJuMaN89 Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 ok i am probably going to get the Western Digital My Book Live http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136745&Tpk=WDBACG0010HCH-NESN and rip everything to there...plug that in to my router and hopefully i can stream it to my samsung tv! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 That should work as long as your TV can stream HD properly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olokul Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 I just started working on a mini ITX computer. Only playing D3 and SC2 with it. You guys are worring me with all the asrock talk. ASRock Z77E-ITX LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard EVGA 015-P3-1480-KR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 Mushkin blackline 2x4gb 9-9-9-24 1.35v Western Digital Scorpio Black WD2500BEKT 250GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Lian Li T1 spider case Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 There's nothing wrong with ASRock boards. I didn't like mine when I had BD, but it was due mostly to an immature BIOS. I still have it around as a backup or for if I decide to go back to AMD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 AsRock's are great, I used one for a friend's computer build and it blew me away the quality and features it had for what we bought it for! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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