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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The HTPC Thread - Dont buy an HTPC

Vladimir Putin: Mar 17, 2007; by R. Guyovich

I have a silly question:

I want to watch OTA HD on a really old spare computer I have. The thing is, I'm not sure whether it will be able to handle OTA HDTV. The specs are:

Athlon T-bird 1400
512 meg whatever ram they had back in those days
Geforce 4 MX440

Should I just be able to throw in a HDTV tuner card in there and be able to watch some HDTV ? Just how much computing power does it take to display HDTV anyway ?

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