<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dean Harding</b> <<a href="mailto:dean.harding@dload.com.au">dean.harding@dload.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Brian Phillips wrote:
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Can
this really push 1080p? I have always been weary of onboard video
chips...this seems to good to be true.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">The
good part being you don't use a slot for a video card...</font></span></div></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri">Actually *displaying* 1080p is not that hard. The
"hard" part is decoding the
compressed stream, which has nothing to do with your graphics card.<br>
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I've got a Abit AN-M2HD which comes with an nVidia 7050PV onboard
graphics card and I have no problem with watching 1080p video.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Thanks Dean...I've been looking at this board: <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138061">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138061</a>
, which has the 7050PV. I'm currently running SD (probably use the SVideo Port for that), but liked that HDMI port for future upgrading to HD. Thanks for confirming that as a viable upgrade path ;-)<br>-- <br>Doug<br>
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