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Originally posted by Gamester17 View Post
Honestly, it was a extremely difficult to find one of the PCI-Cards here in Europe. Nearly everything you find is PCIe. I live in Germany and the only shops I could find which sell those cards were from the US, but they wouldn't ship this item to Europe for some reason. (NewEgg, Tigerdirect and even Amazon.com)
Finally I came across a German Onlineshop which sells one of the Sparcle-cards for ? 60, which is about $ 76. Crap! I believe, there is a very small market for PCI-cards here in EU.
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Is 2GB necessary?
I'd like to reproduce the original results using existing parts where possible. It looks like the cheapest option is
- Nvidia GeForce 210 fanless low profile GPU (512MB): $40
- AMD Sempron 140 Sargas: $36
- Suitable micro-ATX motherboard (sadly, with integrated GPU): $50
- 2GB DDR2/800 RAM: $50
At these prices, cutting from 2GB RAM to 1GB RAM would save significantly on the price (my wife is indulging me). But I would like to be able to play h.264 encoded 1080p content, since my TV supports 1080p. Should I pay $50 for a full 2GB RAM, or will $25 for 1GB RAM suffice? Getting the full cost under $150 would be a bonus.
(I have a case already paid for and can repurpose optical drive and hard drives from existing systems that have reached retirement age.)
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For simple playback 2GB are not necessary.
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