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I've just built a very cheap pc.This was the goal because it is purely for viewing channels through a dvb-s card. The motherboard is Asrock E350M1 E350 Mini-ITX which comes with a preinstalled
cpu. Right now im using windows 7 32 bit on it but when i'm viewing channels it sometimes cant
handle the 1080p streams and starts to lag or breakup sometimes. What is the best advice about what to do for now? I do plan on upgrading the motherboard and cpu EVENTUALLY but just cant
afford a good cpu and mobo right now.
 
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I have 4gb ram installed plus a radeon 5000 series 1gb graphics card though. Is there any decoder that would make life easier for the cpu?
 
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yeah see, that is a 5 year old card and low end at that. A more modern card with enough of a engine (not too expensive, but certainly not $10 or $20) to support 1080p aka 1920x1080 displays. You might want to drop down to 720P for that card, but still may get the occassional stutter. Also depends on the outputted display, so for example a 45" Vizio is alot of signal to push, so again a better modern card would be fine to display it better.

As this is only for TV the 3GB (you can't read 4G or more in 32 bit OSes) should be perfectly fine if your not running much else. If this is still accessing the Internet in anyway, you still would need all the 'extras' many tend to ignore. Here are some basics I follow to make sure (software wise) things will stay okay:

Download and run SPECCY, copy and paste the first tab to show your idle temps

Did you install all Windows Updates? Including options except BING? Check them and repeat till ALL are installed.

Download and run Slim Drivers, install all the latest updates but you don't need to reboot until you do the last update

Remove whatever AV your using and go to www.filehippo.com and download AVAST! or AVG and do a full system scan - this repeatedly has resolved alot of people issue relying on MS Essentials.

Download Malwarebytes do a full system scan (AV doesn't pick up alot of malware) - this resolved almost ALL other similiar posts to date as most had Malware the AV didn't pick up.
Repeat the AV/Malware scans till the system comes up clean.
 
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I got so frustrated i just ordered these :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DVDSYOC/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0095VPAVE/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

will these be up to the task? surely.
If i can get away with returning the crappy motherboard i will, if not ebay is the way to go.
 
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May I ask what the goal here originally was? You first noted you had a dvb-s card but you went and still going so low end here, it seems the 'computing' isn't necessary your just trying to watch TV (??) through your computer and put it on a LCD screen? Or what are you 'trying' to accomplish? Honestly any number of cheaper ways are availabel then trying to build a computer around a dvb-s card just to display on a LCD screen, especially NOW LCD TV exist with these functions already built in and are about / less expensive then how much your spending so far - may still need to to accomplish what the goal is.
 
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*snorts* Hell my Sony Blu Ray player been updated with a hell lot more then that Fire so I can watch 'internet content' via my Blu-Ray . Nevermind what been added onto PS3/Xbox 360 as well which are both around $100 too AND you get a nice library of games to buy into, and both play Blu Ray movies as well. *shrugs* again still wiaitng to see what the OP is trying to do.
 
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Its primarily for tv and recording satellite programs on a large drive but i also want to be able to download and browse the net use netflix hulu etc. with the familiar os. If i bought an amazon fire or set top box i would be held back by the limitations on the software. The point of this is i plan on eventually turning it into a complete HTPC for another room. While keeping my gaming pc (1tb hybrid ssd , 3gb nvidia 660 16gb ram and 8 core AMD Processor) in its original location.
 
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