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Old 01-21-2011, 11:22 PM   #3
c_loke
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A good codec will offload much of the processing work to the GPU.

In your case, both video cards will work equally as well, your bottleneck would be your processor. Although a quad is overkill for an htpc, it will do much better than your sempron.

My htpc is a Core 2 Duo 2.14ghz, Radeon HD 4650. It runs smooth as butter.
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