HTPC CPU 4K Playback

[Tabamon]

hello guys,

i have some old hardware lying in my attic and i was wondering if i could use it to build a discrete htpc for my dorm, using CPU-Z i managed to discover that the pc is an old prebuild asus system. the motherboard should be the F1A75-M and the processor is an amd A8 3820 APU clocked to 2.53GHz, i was wondering if i could put a 4k bluray drive, an ssd and a couple HDDs and expect the cpu to be able to handle a 4k (not gaming) kind of load, i also have an old gtx 750 that i could throw if needed and the psu has been upgraded in the past to a more decent antec 500W 80+ certified, so im not too worried about that... the CB R15 score of the cpu seems to be around of 265... wich is not great but i think i could live with it, so... what do you guys think? could that work? i mean i just want a pc that can handle 4k and some very light 1080p gaming, FIFA would be my mainly played game.

 

Thanks for the help

[Jurrunio]

does your monitor have DisplayPort?

 

You will have to use the 750.

[Tabamon]

30 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

does your monitor have DisplayPort?

 

You will have to use the 750.

its a regular tv, with HDMI... no monitor

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Tabamon said:

its a regular tv, with HDMI... no monitor

If it only has HDMI then you can only get 4K 30Hz with the 750's HDMI 1.4.

[Tabamon]

 

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

If it only has HDMI then you can only get 4K 30Hz with the 750's HDMI 1.4.

thats ok, i dont plan on gaming in 4k with a 750, just play movies, ill game at a standard 1080p resolution, my focus is just 4k playback... i was wondering, if i managed to sell my 750 and get a gt 1030... would i be able to stream 4k from netflix? because ive seen that i am forced to use kabylake and-or a 10th gen nvidia card

[Jurrunio]

27 minutes ago, Tabamon said:

 

thats ok, i dont plan on gaming in 4k with a 750, just play movies, ill game at a standard 1080p resolution, my focus is just 4k playback... i was wondering, if i managed to sell my 750 and get a gt 1030... would i be able to stream 4k from netflix? because ive seen that i am forced to use kabylake and-or a 10th gen nvidia card

Havent heard of Netflix limiting cards. Many use old cards to play Netflix here.

[Stagea]

On 9/17/2017 at 8:49 AM, Jurrunio said:

Havent heard of Netflix limiting cards. Many use old cards to play Netflix here.

They are for 4K on the PC. They require Pascal with at least 3GB of onboard memory (or Kaby Lake / Coffee Lake IGP) at the moment.

 

On 9/17/2017 at 5:53 AM, Tabamon said:

hello guys,

i have some old hardware lying in my attic and i was wondering if i could use it to build a discrete htpc for my dorm, using CPU-Z i managed to discover that the pc is an old prebuild asus system. the motherboard should be the F1A75-M and the processor is an amd A8 3820 APU clocked to 2.53GHz, i was wondering if i could put a 4k bluray drive, an ssd and a couple HDDs and expect the cpu to be able to handle a 4k (not gaming) kind of load, i also have an old gtx 750 that i could throw if needed and the psu has been upgraded in the past to a more decent antec 500W 80+ certified, so im not too worried about that... the CB R15 score of the cpu seems to be around of 265... wich is not great but i think i could live with it, so... what do you guys think? could that work? i mean i just want a pc that can handle 4k and some very light 1080p gaming, FIFA would be my mainly played game.

 

Thanks for the help

You can plug in a GTX 1050Ti, and that should allow you to stream Netflix videos at 4K and play some games at 1080p.

[Zodiark1593]

Forced 4K playback of DRM protected 4K content, you will need a Pascal GPU in there (the only other option being a Kaby lake CPU). Doesn't matter one bit if the CPU can decode on its own. The GTX 750 has a hybrid decoder for HEVC content (unsure if it can do 10 bit though), but again, lack of the DRM makes it utterly useless for Netflix (4k) or 4k blue ray.

 

Honestly, unless you plan on ripping 4K blu rays, it would probably be cheaper and easier to just grab a 4K blu ray player, and run Netflix off of that too.

[Stagea]

On 9/26/2017 at 9:41 PM, Zodiark1593 said:

Forced 4K playback of DRM protected 4K content, you will need a Pascal GPU in there (the only other option being a Kaby lake CPU). Doesn't matter one bit if the CPU can decode on its own. The GTX 750 has a hybrid decoder for HEVC content (unsure if it can do 10 bit though), but again, lack of the DRM makes it utterly useless for Netflix (4k) or 4k blue ray.

 

Honestly, unless you plan on ripping 4K blu rays, it would probably be cheaper and easier to just grab a 4K blu ray player, and run Netflix off of that too.

UHD Bluray also requires Kaby Lake / Coffee Lake at this point. The only Windows software I know that supports its playback (PowerDVD) requires Intel graphics at the moment. Nvidia mentioned that they are working with Cyberlink to possibly enable support for Pascal though.