<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:37 PM, nik gibson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I'm looking at a great deal on an nForce 3 Socket 754 Motherboard and AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.80GHz processor. What I'm wondering is will that be enough horsepower to run HDTV in 1080i with no graphics hardware acceleration? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If anyone is successfully viewing HDTV content on a similar equipped system without XvMC please let me know and I'll buy this motherboard/cpu combo.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>There is a good chart on the wiki with example systems and CPU usage for viewing SD and HD content both with and without xvmc here:</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><B><A href="http://tinyurl.com/y4a9fy">http://tinyurl.com/y4a9fy</A></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>