Onboard graphics enough?

[brendude13]

Scoobes said:

brendude13 said:

Scoobes said:

brendude13 said:

Scoobes said:

brendude13 said:
I would be careful, I have a decent mobo and when I first got that 2 years ago it choked on HD content, same goes for my sisters decent laptop which she bought recently. By HD content I mean just 720p.

You are probably going to want a $100+ mobo, preferably a 1156 or 1155 socket

What codecs are you using? I can't imagine you'd have too much trouble if you're using x264.

I'm not quite sure of the model, but it's a higher end Foxconn mobo.

And it was 720p Youtube content (which I believe is x264)

An ATI HD 4350 fixed all that though, 1080p no problem.

That's weird. I manage to run 720 stuff on my old laptop (about 4/5 yrs old with integrated Intel chip) and connect it up to my TV, although I never tried streaming youtube in 720. Seems to work OK with MKV files in media player classic. But yeah, the ATI card would definately sort that

Really? o.0

Even my friends laptop is about 3 years old but it is very high end, it even has a fingerprint scanner to log on, and even that chokes on Youtube 720p.

I guess it's just Youtube?

Maybe. I only ever tried playing stuff with x264 on Media Player Classic, never HD streaming.

I'm guessing SD x264 would mainly strain the processor because of the decompression etc.

HD x264 would strain the graphics card / chip as well, that was the weakness of my computer before I installed a separate graphics card.

I wonder what Youtube does which strains the graphics card / chip even further?