Looks like Vicotnik did manage to unlock the 2nd core in his Sempron with the GA-MA74GM-S2H (rev3) board, no? Is that what you mean by "future proofing"? Unlocking the 2nd core? Ah, no. Sorry, I was a bit unclear. The GA-MA74GM-S2H (rev3) board is an AM2-board with DDR2-memory. So, by "future proof...

Hi, I'm building a NAS box (it will run some flavour of Linux), and I would like it to be as power efficient as possible at a reasonable price. I already have the Sempron 140, an old pico-psu, 2 WDGP 1TB disks, and a decent box to put it in. What I need is a motherboard, ram, and maybe an extra 2TB ...

This thread has mostly talked about ATI cards, but what about low power Nvidia cards? I'm interested in their cards because of VDPAU under linux, but I find it is difficult to find a card that fits my requirements which are almost exactly like the thread starters, but with the condition that it has ...

Sorry, not trying to thread-hijack here, but ... I'm looking at a new Motherboard, and been looking at the P35 series, but also at the G35 series, and I wonder about the graphic adapter on the G35. With your motherboard, could you play Counter Strike at a decent frame rater at 1280x1024? That's the...

The G35 is more or less a P35 with onboard GPU. I don't where you got the idéa that the P35 is newer? As far as I know the G35 is newer than the P35. I have an ASUS P5E-VM HDMI, G35 chipset, in a HTPC myself. I'm very pleased with that board and can really recommend it. Ahh, yes. I had the intel c...

Yes, this completely changes my plans for a AMD HTPC. But what motherboard to get for these CPUs?

I can't seem to find any m-ATX motherboards with the P35 chipset. There are some with the G35, but none with the newer P35 or X38.

Not sure what sort of timescale you're looking at but the AMD (ATI) RS780 chipset is scheduled to be released during the next few months. This is a DX10 IGP but more pertinently, it has the UVD on-chip decode engine. Due to be produced on the 55nm process so it should be a small, low power chip in ...

I do have quite a lot of h/x264 material which is in 1080p, and I expect that to grow. QuietOC, Have you used the HDMI on your M2A-VM? There are lots of reports here on the forum of this board being flaky, especially regarding the HDMI output. I was considering going for the ABIT AN-M2HD instead. la...

Yes, I've seen that the Biostar TF7050-M2 is quite popular on this board, and I would probably get it if I could get it from a decent store in Sweden. But unfortunately they are a bit difficult to get hold of. On the other hand I'm mostly interested in if the 7050 chipset (or 690g) can handle 1080p ...

Hi, Yet another "Which motherboard should I go get" type of question. I'm looking for a cheap HTPC (and file server) solution to drive my fullHD TV. The requirements are: * Integrated graphics * low power * Be able to show 1080p content without problem I've decided to go with an AMD solution because...

I'm considering a similar box, as I have similar requirements (a little gaming, some HD movies, programming and writing all under Linux). However, I probably will go with a simpler cpu, most likely E4300 or E2160. In my experience I don't need that much horsepower. Some comments on your choice of co...