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I have a PC with an I5 processor and 8GB RAM.
I do not have a proper 4K card.
Use case is direct play from server. No transcoding.
IS there a recommendation for a relatively inexpensive video card?
Does Plex HTPC care about workstation being a I5?
I can get more details if needed
I just setup an old desktop that has a AMD Phenom II x4 955 that runs it just fine…that CPU was released January 2009 btw. So, you’ll be fine with an i5. Video card wise, nVidia GTX 1000 series or AMD RX 500 series cards. Their costs have come down a lot used
will a 1030 work?
You don’t need a very powerful video card to play 4K content with HTPC. That only need to decode the video which is not too crazy. It is encoding that needs a lot of power and why for your server, having a good card is key.
thanks kindly for the reply… Is there a list, or do you have a suggestion on sub $100 cards that would work?
You didn’t say what model i5 this is, but if it’s recent the built-in graphics would be enough. You can always buy a dedicated card later if it’s not.
Edit: Here’s someone doing a test of 4K on an 8th gen i5:
Kinda hard to tell the results since YouTube is recompressing the screen recording, though. But the general answer is: yes. And I wasn’t even referring to something this age.
Should be more than sufficient.
Also, newer CPU’s with built in cards would work as @nx6 pointed out.
thanks both of you.
the processor on this is older… Intel Core i5-650 Processor(3.20 GHz 4 MB), so I think I will n3ed the card.
The specs for that cpu does not list QuickSync so it likely does not have it. It’s benchmark score is 2200 so that is likely too low to handle decoding in software, but you can always try.
Will go ahead and get 1030… It does not have the oopmpf do do software decoding.
Question: 1030 2Gb enough?
GDDR5 vs SDDR4?
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