Building new Home Theater PC

[hawaiian2003]

I am envisioning this:

A home theater pc that I can rip blu ray discs on and play back on my 57" widescreen TV.

I am planning to purchase AnyDVDHD so I believe that will take care of some of my problems. Can a motherboard with modern integrated grahics and an HDMI output handle blu ray content? If not, how powerful a graphics card do I need? For that matter, how powerful a cpu do i need?

 

[wetech]

I'm in the process of building one myself. For an AMD system, the IGP on a 780G board will do hardware decoding of h.264 for you, no need for another graphics card. I'm using a 4850e for the CPU. For an Intel system, you may want to wait for the new G45 mobo's to come out. The G35's don't do hardware decoding.

If you plan to do a lot of encoding, you may want a more powerful CPU.

You should check out this thread at AVSForum.

Link

 

[themisfit610]

Don't bother with the onboard chipsets - they can't bitstream audio over HDMI. In fact, they can't even send 5.1ch PCM since it's all based on S/PDIF.

Get one of the new radeon 4000 series cards - they can bitstream audio.

~MiSfit

 

[fuentefan]

ALOT of reading here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26