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potatoproduction
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Depends on how you're watching it, application wise.

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Umm, I believe chrome does.

 

Again, it then depends on the site and how its streaming that content to you, for example, Youtube triggers an NVIDIA "Video Engine" processor, which I believe is the h264 encoder/decoder.

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Depends. If you have a 5960X your CPU can probably do it. Otherwise GPU helps a lot. As for how good a GPU you need, literally any modern iGPU is good enough, a discrete won't have any benefit beyond enabling DP 1.2 or HDMI 2.0 for higher than 30 fps playback.

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