because we're all living in a poor 3rd world country, where's the government only talks but no action.
(when you go to oversea, most countries foreign exchange accept sing dollar, but not ringgit malysia)

I notice that ATI HD 5000 series now support 3D stereoscopic display/glasses.
But don't know what type of 3D glasses can be used.

new Mac Mini now with HDMI ports...!!

just canceled my Dell Zino HD order...

dang Dell... my order was on the 1st June, Estimated Delivery was suppose to be 14th June... then on the 14th, they changed it to the 23rd June... taking 23 days to assemble a PC is kinda extreme, eh?

Won't see my buying a Dell from now on, that's for sure.

How muchie? I want to replace my old Mac Mini.

Dell always postpone it date. I buy printer also quiet late. Not sure are they assemble that printer also.

If you are a return buyer you can ask for special discount. If they screw up delivery like this, just say you want more discount, if not just cancel order.

RM2399!

It looks slimmer as well.. pity no i cores yet... think possibly, next upgrade should be an i core...

dang...! seriously?
wonder how they do sales...

guys im having a problem with playing a 1080 movies on my htpc, where the movie like lag. runing 720p movies are fine

my system spec
AMD 5200 AM2
2GB DDR2 ram
1TB hdd
mobo: Asrock A780GM-LE build in gc and audio (Integrated AMD Radeon HD 3200 n 5.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio )

does my system is good enough to play 1080 files?
im curently runing movies using MediaPOrtal

AFAIK, the HD3200 could do some hardware accelerataion. try and search around on how to enable it.
for the time being, try and use media player classic paired with corecodec coreavc decoder. that should be the fastest software decoder. try and use that and see if it still lags

HD 3200 should do DVXA , it should able to offload and process 1080p without any problems. MediaPortal uses the CPU to do progressing and it has a crappy decoder. Try with MPC Home Cinema !

Maybe u should consider to get discreet graphic card that more powerful to process 1080p.
ATI 5000 series or Nvidia GT2 (with PureVideo HD) are great for 1080p movies.

how much can cost? isit lowprofile ? cos i use mini case

I buy ATI HD 5570 Low Profile at RM300. This radeon can bitstream HD audio and low power consumption.
But GT2 is more cheaper than that.

i'd rather exhaust all my options before jumping for an upgrade.
try the media player classic home cinema (mpc-hc) either with or without coreavc to see whether the problem is from the mediaportal or from hardware speed.

elanges
amd 5200 with a bit of OC juice can run compressed 1080 AVC / MP4 no problem.


but if you're talking about uncompressed MPEG or AVC (BD ISO) then I remember on AVS forums they recommended AMD 6000+ (again, with OC you should reach 3.0Ghz).

Hi, am running 5200+ with 780g mobo (onboard HD3200 gpu); I've no problem with MPC-HC with DXVA enabled for 1080p material, just fyi. You can have the DXVA acceleration in MPC-HC easily.

Best regards

i guess you're quoting the wrong person.
ain't me running the AMD platform

THANKS guys, guess i will try use MPC first and see , previously i use coreavc and have this lag problem, and some1 advice me to uninstall it but still have the same issue. this DXVA isit suported by MPC-HC only? the reason why im sticking with mediaportal is because of the interface, easy me to watch movie/series/anime or music.

is it advisable to use Mac Mini as htpc + dinovo keybd

why not?
I've seen some do it and planning on having a similar setup... which I think would make my Mede8er kinda obsolete unless I get another TV...