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kureshii:
My family desktop used to be a P4 3GHz (it’s now an LGA775 Pentium dual-core), also Socket 478. It could at least handle high-bitrate 720p without GPU-accelerated decoding, so you can probably expect as much.

Going back to page 1 and actually answering the question, I don't think anything on Socket 478 is going to be able to manage high-bitrate 1080p (without overclocking, which is an area I don’t go into so I don’t know how much you can eke from it). I second (third? Fourth?) opinions that point to an Athlon II X2. Get a cheap AMD motherboard—if you go low-end integrated graphics, they can be amazingly cheap, and DDR3 memory as you please (memory prices are supposed to fall soon).

For about $120 (keeping your PSU, hard disk and other parts which I assume are or will be compatible—possibly not though, especially the PSU), that’s a 1080p-capable upgrade. Not cheap compared to what you can find from old parts stores, but that’s the minimum I think you’ll need if you’re aiming for 1080p playback.

Of course, there’s always the promise of GPU-accelerated decoding, and you can most likely still find one or two newer AGP graphics cards supporting that. But this isn’t really a solution, since there are many videos that don’t work quite well even with DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration).

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