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man009   08-10-2009 at 06:05:27 PM

I'm building an HTPC and I'm looking at using a either an ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2 /AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard or BIOSTAR TA790GX XE AM2 /AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

my question is, is the NVIDIA GeForce 8200/8300 or Ati 3200/3300 powerful enough for me to watch BlueRay's on full 1080HD, or will i need to buy a dedicated Video card?

I'll probably have about 4gigs of ram and a Phantom x2 or x3 .

trying to keep the price under $300.

thanks


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Bronze Home Brew badge obsidian86   08-10-2009 at 06:07:54 PM
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the 3300 should be ok but what size sceen you gonna use an if you looking for a bit better try the 785g am3 boards

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