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==== 1.1 You don’t need a powerful computer for an entertainment system ====

Most modern CPUs (Intel/AMD) have integrated graphics that support hardware-accelerated video decoding for formats like H.264, HEVC (H.265), and VP9. This means:

* Nearly anything made in the past 10 years, even cheap stuff, will be fine for most video playback.
* You do not need to buy a GPU to watch stuff in your living room.

If buying a dedicated living room computer, II would suggest buying a machine that has optical audio output so that you can output digital audio to a receiver or DAC(digital to analog converter); rather than doing the audio processing on the computer, this sends the digital signal to another device to do it. If your motherboard’s analog audio output/headphone jack is noisy and you don’t have a digital output, you’re stuck paying for an audio interface to get good sound or digital output.

It is difficult to recommend cheap pre-built PCs as many have loud fans due to poor cooling that become annoying in an environment where you will listen to music and quiet scenes in youtube videos, movies &amp; television. If you’re reading this guide, you most likely will want to build one yourself.

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