Help with HTPC

Lo,

I have this old rubbish rig (AMD 1800 @ 1.53 GHz, 768Mb of RAM and an ATi Radeon X1600 AGP GFX Card)

So I whacked it in my living room behind my TV hoping I could use it as a HTPC.

Overall, it works quite well but for some reason, some movies encoded encoded in certain formats stutter (especially the audio). I put this down to the rig being to old and crappy.

So my question is this, If I bought the best AGP card on the market, would my HD playback performance improve or is it CPU limited?

Thanks for any help you can offer on this,

Fifthfreedom

It may improve i suppose, the best is the HD3850 for around £130. For that though you might as well just start building a new one, especially if the case and PSU, HDD and optical you already have is up to it.

An abit 780G (£45), 2GB PC6400 (£30). Amd X2 (£40) and you've got yourself a decent base for an HTPC.