If you have little internet bandwidth to work with, AV1 decoding support is helpful. PotPlayer supports almost every available video format out there and with support for internal codecs, you wont need to download anything additional. If going the dedicated video card route anything from a gt 1030 (try to find the ddr5 version), to the rtx 30 series will do 4k just fine with 4k HDR. If you are planning on streaming video from this PC, you will need a good encoder and Nvidia's encoder tends to be more widely-supported in current applications. There is the APU route if you are tight on budget and AMD have some good APU's that will allow good decoding performance at 4k, but the latest AV1 format can only be decoded on the latest dedicated Nvidia rtx 30 or AMD Rx 6000 GPU's.

It all depends if you are going to stream from this PC and need good encoding performance or are just using it to watch video with a display connected to it, meaning decoding performance would matter more.ĬPU speed doesn't matter as much if you're going to offload the video processing work to a dedicated GPU anyways.Ī cheap CPU from either Intel or AMD (I wouldn't go anything older than intel 4th gen core-i or AMD Ryzen) will do for 4k if the video processing will be done on the GPU.

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