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I'm currently using XPMC on a Elite P4S5MG board, Celeron 2 ghz, 2 gig ram, ATI2600/512 (HDMI) graphics card & Audigy sound.
How would this perform with VMC ...am I better off staying with XP.
I did a search and found varying answers, I mostly play music, HDTV and slideshows on a 42" plasma panel. Advice needed.
No opinions...?, My previous search suggested viewing task manager (cpu load) ...when viewing HDTV it will average around 75%, using DivcoHDTV card.
First step would be to download Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and see if your hardware are Windows Vista compatible. If the advisor indicates that you might have a problem, then there's not point as you will have issues.
If your system is already working and performing what you expect it to be, then it would be wiser to just leave it as it is.
I'm currently using XPMC on a Elite P4S5MG board, Celeron 2 ghz, 2 gig ram, ATI2600/512 (HDMI) graphics card & Audigy sound.
How would this perform with VMC ...am I better off staying with XP.
I did a search and found varying answers, I mostly play music, HDTV and slideshows on a 42" plasma panel. Advice needed.
i'd say the biggest problem there is your sound card. there are a lot of Creative cards that have dodgy Vista Drivers, so research that a bit first.
and the CPU is a little bit of a worry...can the board take Dual Cores? something like the 2180/2200/2200 would do quite well.
i had a HD2400XT doing BluRay @ 1080p, so the 2600XT should be able to handlle it.
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Dilithium -> A64 X2 4850, ECS 8200A, 2x1024Mb Crucial, Onboard GF8200, 1x80Gb Seagate SATA, 2x250Gb Seagate SATA II in Stripe, Pioneer 212BK, ThermalTake Tenor, HDA X-Plosion, DVICO Dual Tuner, Acer 32" 720p LCD
Trilithium -> A64 X2 4850e, ABIT Nforce Mobo, 2x2GB DDR2-800 Patriot, Sapphire HD2400XT, 160GB Samsung SATA, Pioneer K06 DVD Burner, Hiper Slimline Chassis w/Slimline CPU Cooler, Digital Now Tiny Twin Tuner, Sound Blaster USB, Hisence 42" 1080p LCD TV :):):)
For info..I have installed VMC using the PC described above. Here are the results using Vista Performance Rating.
Overall 2.7
CPU 2.7
Ram 2.7
Graphics 2.9
Game Graphics 5.0
HD 5.2
I can use VMC for everything bar HDTV, SDTV barely. I decided to retain VMC dual booted with XPMCE hoping to improve things using tweaks. Using the Dvico Fusion software TV is acceptable. Long term I will need a new MB+CPU+RAM....the old computing problem.
My panel is a 3yr old Philips plasma 42" native rez is 720x480/60hz or 720x576/50hz (I think, supplied info was poor)...interlace to 1280, ATI2600-512 is using driver ver. 8.522.00 and set for 1280x720 32bit 50hz. Using component video input.
Hmm ....doesn't look very optimum.
Continuing...I just ordered a ASRock 939A8X-M MB (AGP8X & DDR capable) + AMD Athlon X2 Processor 4850e, 2.5GHz CPU. This combination seemed best in order to recover most of my existing hardware and the CPU is only 45W and great for audio-video work. I think this should give me 5+ ratings under VMC. Cost was less then $175....trying to get most for the least $.
Hey dude, I would like to chip in my 2 cents.
I have an AMD Athlon 64x2 6000+ 1 gig ddr2 750gig sata2 hdd and i am only just impressed with vista media center. I think in reality your hardware will fall way below the required resorces for a fully appreciable user exsperience.
I got my pc off eBay for like 400 bucks. maybe you shold look at a cheep upgrade first.
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Thats a Socket 939 board...the current AMD CPUs will not fit in there!!!!!
Yup, thats the MB (Austin)..guess I need a rethink here, I just assumed that when it said "Support AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core CPU" all was well, thanks for the warning....back to the drawing board.
Thing is I really wanted to reuse what I could from my existing gear, AGP ATI2600 and 2 gig of DDR 400 and still use VMC.
Looking at the AMD charts it would seem the best I can do is a Athlon 64 dual 4800 cpu?
Best upgrade for the money..?
Asus Mainboard M3N78-EMH HDMI, Socket 940,NV GeForce8200.
( .http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...82&modelmenu=1 )
+ AMD Athlon X2 Processor 4850e
+ DDR2-800 Kingston 2GB
= $250
I would appreciate your comments, thanks.
