Hi Guys , I wanted to know whats the best graphics card I can get for my system for watching movies ie UHD etc as if i play it using current PC everything lags and is unwatchable.I do not game so I dont need one that does that as well.
Here are my current pc specs ,hope thats enough info and thanks in advance.
Windows 7 32bit 4 GB Ram
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
Socket AM3 (938)
ASUSTeK Computer INC.
M4A88T-V EVO/USB3
AMD Radeon HD 6670
Get some more RAM perhaps?
Any modern discrete GPU will handle decoding movies happily, but won't be super cheap. Very low end GPUs have been replaced by APUs, so last-gen bottom end GPUs start at around £70 for a GT 1030.
Given windows 7 is hitting end-of-life in a few months (and won't get security updates in future), my advice is to bite the bullet and get a whole new PC with an APU (like an AMD athlon, or one of the ryzen processors that end in G). It'll be more responsive in general, and will handle video better than your current system
Not with a 32-bit OSOriginally Posted by kalniel
Good catch.
I'm still not sure why movie playback isn't already smooth. That system should be fine otherwise.
Sorry, I forgot to mention I have a 1440p monitor and also trying to playback x265 files also 2160p !
OK, that's a bit of a problem.
You need a recent graphics card to handle x265: https://www.howtogeek.com/342416/wha...for-4k-movies/
But modern video cards come with at least 2GB of ram, and that comes out of your 4GB address space.
Good news, is that Windows 7 didn't come with 32 or 64 bit licences, any licence would allow either to install. Assuming you still have your licence key, I would back everything up or better still grab a new SSD to install onto, grab a copy of 64 bit Windows 7 install media and do a fresh install of 64 bit.
Once you have a 64 bit OS you should have much better choice of video cards. But even so, you are looking at an RX550 or GTX950 minimum. If buying new they are still quite expensive, which is annoying as a £40 Athlon 200GE should be capable of decoding with its integrated graphics but that means a new motherboard and DDR4.
Hi , sorry for the late reply so with black friday etc coming up I have decided to build a pc for x265 play back , the only things i dont need is psu/Keyboard/Mouse/fans/case so can someone spec a budget pc for just watching films,no gaming please.
Anyone ?
Intel Celeron G4930 3.2GHz. Built in GPU will decode HEVC up to 4K. £45
MSI H310M-PRO-VDH mATX mobo, supports the above CPU without BIOS update by the looks of things. £60
2x4GB DDR4-2400 RAM (see MSI web-site for tested modules) ~£40. To be fair, if you're really just wanting films, you could easy drop this to 4GB, but Windows 10 really benefits from more than 4GB.
Storage. SSD's are faster, but you don't get so much capacity. Depends on whether you're storing films or just streaming them. Note this motherboard doesn't havea M.2 slot. If you're just streaming then get yourself a 250GB branded SATA SSD for £30. If you're storing them, then you'll probably want to chuck in a 2TB (or more, whatever you haven't specified) hard disk for £70.
Can't a cheap Android box do this stuff these days?
I'd assume ARM has HEVC decoding and HDMI output, but I've got no idea for sure.
Also worth noting, that HDMI 1.4 will do 4K at 25fps. You'll need something with HDMI 2 or Display Port to get high fps through, but don't think there is much of that at the moment?
Hi ,thanks for the advice ,is this good for a everyday pc as well ? all I do is use surf the net and irc and watch films of course.
It is only 2 cores, though those cores are better than the now rather old AMD 955BE cores you are using atm.
If you are using it for general purpose use, even browsing, upping to 4 cores is probably worth it. Gives Windows some slack for its background updates etc.
So perhaps an i3 or AMD 2200G which are really cheap now the 3200G is out.
Taiko (25-10-2019)
Yes, plenty powerful enough for that. If you're using it for an everyday PC, I'd highly recommend you get a SSD as your primary drive. 250GB is a minimum if you intend to lean heavily on streamed content and cloud services, but if you're planning on installing a lot of applications or games then you'll want to think about going larger - of course, there is nothing stopping you from adding another drive later down the line if you want to keep costs down.
As DancesWithUnix suggests, this won't be fantastic at multi-threaded work, but browsing the net, sending emails, doing word processing and the like are not heavily threaded, so you won't see a problem.
Extra cores help with media intensive work (encoding video, not watching; playing games; working with media; running virtual machines; working with heavy databases etc).
Taiko (25-10-2019)
One core for the virus checker leaves just one for main tasks where each browser tab open is a task. It can do it, but if you can afford it the cost of another 2 cores isn't that much for a way smoother experience.
what would you suggest as I would rather future proof it a bit as i dont game but do watch x265 2160 files using my 1440p monitor.
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