Acer Aspire Revo 1080P HD Test

[dspikey]

Can someone tell me if the Acer Revo could handle a 8-12gb mkv or H.264 video file ??

[KingKabelSalat]

Don´t even think about using ubuntu. The drivers are a p... in the a...

[KingKabelSalat]

it´s not called Acer houdini :-)

It´s not working properly ! Play a mkv file with 1,5MB/s on this tiny atom.... u´ll see 6 frames per second.....

Only shrinked Bluray footage is shown flawless with this guy.

[sebastianewert]

Yeah Borne Identity :D

[TheComputergeek1100]

is there an optical drive on it

[MrVijfhoek]

@TheComputergeek1100 no, google could have revealed that as well

[nickstan006]

how do you get those movies in hd downloaded on the computer for u?

[ShadowEater120880]

@nickstan006 There are DVD ripping softwares around...

[electronicdawg]

Set the sound in your flat screen to auto and your sound should come on with hdmi cable

[electronicdawg]

Set the sound in your flat screen to auto and your sound should come on eith hdmi cable

[Bongster7]

Can anyone help please. Can you add an external dvd drive so I can install hard copies of games such as Football Manager???

[electronicdawg]

@Bongster7 Why yes, yes you can. Have you ever seen a PC that didn't support an external drive? Dumb question!

[HPATIGAMER]

I think the Atom Processor bottlenecks to nVidia ION

[ishredu]

yeah try VLC the other thing is you prob. didn't disable all of the BS background programs and you also have a bunch of running apps going on..I'd bet the whole thing would speed up if you just do a few simple things in "msconfig""

[cornell92]

Really boring video. S-L-O-W. You jump around too much. I completely lost interest and quit.

[Rourba]

Now, 07/11/11 it coast only $329 at newegg. It comes with windows 7 but no CD.

Type the word Revo on search.

Nice video. Sahit!

[JogBird]

SPEAK UP!

[doctordecomputadoras]

i like know were you downloaded the 1080p videos, or how you rip blue ray disk's

regards

[Sharazapam]

What size is the screen?

[MarveIed]

VLC is probably a better media player than divx.

[sirberner12]

me likey

[MM51TheRealDeal]

does it come with a HDMi cable

[faro0485]

Where's the linux tests???

[ILSONBOYZ]

can anyone tell me if this will play fallout 3 on decent settings thanks

[MM51TheRealDeal]

@ILSONBOYZ

it depends which one you are getting you need anything above the acer aspire revo r3610 model

whcih starst at £250

anything below that model (r3600) wont be able to play most games

[trailersic]

@MM51TheRealDeal

I just bought the R3610 model for £190 with AtomDualCoreN330 CPU, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Nvidia-9400-ION GFX

[jstapleton1984]

would i be able to use autocad on this??

and how did you change the os without a disk?

[rage4242]

Autocad should work, I just don't know how fast it will be if your doing a large job. The easiest way to install an OS is to use a USB Cdrom drive. There are other ways, but they can get complicated to setup, such as installing off of a USB Stick. Not sure if the revo supports it, but you can install over the network too.

[Evil00721]

Can someone help me out with this? I bought the Acer Aspire Revo R1600 and it can't play YouTube HD 1080p videos at all. its way too choppy to watch. I installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA and also flash 10.1 beta but still no luck. Any ideas?

[kenspam]

HI, The processor you have is too weak to handle flash videos which are processor intensive. Return the product and get Revo R3610

[166beads]

its flash player its shit, I have a quod core intel pc, with 8800gt graphics card and 4gb ram on windows 7, and my still is choppy, flash is just rubiish, but full hd videos I have on my computer play fine.

[Evil00721]

I got the Revo R1600 to play them fine now. I just re-downloaded the drivers and also flash 10.1 beta plugin and also the active x plugin and after a reboot 1080P videos worked perfectly, give it a try! I'm using Chrome BTW

[MicroHelper]

@166beads OMg your right dude. : ( .

[rage4242]

youtube 1080p is also dependant on your internet connection. I've also found that the installation of windows that comes on it is very bloated. Try a fresh install of windows without any of the junk.

[allangreen45]

@Evil00721 youtube doesn't work because flash does not utilize the ion graphics chip in this system. It's one of steve jobs main beef with adobe. Flash as it stands right now only uses the computers cpu not the graphics processor so that is the reason for the lag with flash. a 1.6 atom isn't powerful enough to run that video without the help of the built in nvidia ion graphics processor.

[Edsan91]

@allangreen45 Youtube now supports Nvidia and Ati cards to work along with the CPU to help play the flash videos! If you have A laptop with an ati card or or An Nvidia card You can download adobe flash 10.1 BETA and it will run fine!

[jewlzorjay]

i'm not interested in gaming. its all about the HD for me

originally i was considering the Mac mini. starts from £500 but i get student discount.

How does this compare to the Mac?

[SWATurban]

sorry is this the 230 processor or the 330 dual core??

[netbooked]

@SWATurban single-core 230 processor.

[docmordrid]

@netbooked

I just bought an Acer AspireRevo 1600 at Best Buy for $200 and after getting it running I checked the performance tab in the task manager and got a big surprise: it shows two cores, not one. Hmmm.......

[ispirati]

@docmordrid

Atom 230 has Hyperthreading, which is 1 core with 2 threads.

[rage4242]

Intel's Hyperthreading simulates 2 cores.

I have 2x 4 core server processors that windows shows as 16 cores. It's pretty funny.

[ghilliebros]

Hey, does anyone know if this computer can run "Team Fortress 2?"

[giggedyguy]

@ghilliebros Team Fortress, far as I know doesn't require a lot of power. Mostly it depends on your internet connection. Good connection should equal fast graphical load time, since it's online only game.

[StoopidShyt]

@ghilliebros it can not, trust me, i've tried

[ChavsAreInferior]

@StoopidShyt WTF? It can run Call of duty 4, MW2, Crysis.

Moron, you just don't have enough money. Of course it can... Tut tut tut....

[StoopidShyt]

@ChavsAreInferior sure, it can RUNA the damn game, but it lags like a fuckin bitch! ud get around 5-15 fps playing those games, im pretty sure u could get at least 2fps in crysis...

[ChavsAreInferior]

@StoopidShyt Your right, but have you heard of running it on Low? Search for aspire revo playing crysis in youtube, He has it on lowest settings and it plays FINE, Even if there is lag, I'm not one of those nerds who go "Erghhh this computers graphics is shit... Arghhhh im going to play on my XBOX and eat PANCAKES" Don't get me wrong, I ain't dissing you. Simply correcting you by TELLING you that it runs some modern games on Low or medium, Delete all the junk software and it should be fine,

[racketer]

Would it play cod 4 and cod modern warefare 2 ok on low settings?

[ChavsAreInferior]

@StoopidShyt also here is the link /watch?v=yeFrZb4ttFE&feature=r­elated

He does get 7 - 17 FPS but it looks fine, He probably didn't prepare his computer, If i was to play a game on my pc i would

1. Delete uneeded processes in task manager

2. get rid of junk files

3. close anything uneeded

4. play with a little more speed.

Considering it has one of the SLOWEST processors realeased by intel thats pretty impressive.

[aceracc323]

Not Bad For $200US

[furiouspride]

Is there a way to store the Win 7 image on a USB drive and install it from there? Instead of creating a bootable Win7 disc, I'd like to do it using a USB thumb drive. Possible? :)

[tipoomaster]

@furiouspride Yes, its possible. When I installed Windows 7, I just mounted the ISO within Vista with Daemontools and installed from there, no disk required.

[LuisFelipeGD1978]

Does this have a wireless card? cheers

[0611930024838]

nope :( but usb n is 20 $ in newegg

[sdutango]

lucky you pointed that out. if it couldn't handles the flash HD, it's crap. so it's just not worth the money...

[sabbaristarella]

windows 7 beta??

[ImCaptainjackass]

Did you/ anyone notice that flicker about 3/4 the way up on your screen? It does that too on my machine, not the acer btw but a 2.93ghz celeron and that's with 720p video. So what causes this?

[furiouspride]

The celeron.

[mermerabadani]

ive just bought the aspirerevo aswell, but it doesnt play 720p well, not to mention 1080p. its got the original win xp home that came with it and ive been using cccp for codec pack and still no luck. vlc has been no good, movie player neither. is it an issue you had as well or is there something wrong with my system??

[oxide112]

use xbmc , there is nothing wrong with your system just wmp , ( blame microsoft )

[kilymat]

install k-lite codec pack and try playing using media classic player

[ilovemaryam08]

Flash acceleration for Nvidia GPU's has not been released yet, but it should be out in a couple of months. i will wait untill its realesed before i spend any money.

[kilymat]

you have only 2 cores showing under task manager ? did you enable Hyper threading ? it should be 4 cores

[furiouspride]

You mean that Atom processor is a quad-core?

[kilymat]

no, 2 real core + 2 hyper thread core (not physical)

[anooosy1988]

I think the processor being used in the video is the atom 230, maybe thats why there are only 2 cores in the task manager. the newer revo's have the atom 330 (dual core)

[Pelonetillo]

windows 7 plays hd media way better. love it.

[HLM190586]

How to install Windows OS?

You need to buy external drive?

[netbooked]

Yes you need an external DVD burner.. there are no recovery CDs either.. you have to make them with the provided Acer utility in WIndows Vista.

[inlovewithi]

You seem to know about this computer, so let me ask you. If I buy one of these and hook it up to my TV with HDMI, would it display proper 720p ratio? Whenever I hook up a regular computer through VGA, VGA to HDMI adapter, it stretches the image, etc. I would so get this if it can display it the native resolution.

[netbooked]

Yes through the HDMI cable you can easily get 720p or 1080p resolution.

[mbluett88]

My 3600 only seems to work through the VGA. My Samsung TV does not activate it's HDMI (i.e., I can't switch to that HDMI source). This seems to indicate there is no HDMI signal.

Did you have to do anything special to get the HDMI interface to work?

Also, is it necessary to have both VGA and HDMI connected at the same time?

[netbooked]

You shouldn't have to do anything apart from switching your TV to the HDMI source. You don't need to use both VGA and HDMI at the same time.

[furiouspride]

one of them might not be HDCP-compatible. Two HD devices that cannot handshake through HDMI will not work together :(

[cherkassnoein]

lol u need to buy usb flash device (:

[HLM190586]

CS 1.6? Definitely.

CSS? Not sure.

[Cobalt961]

If I connect a BD rom to this, will it play retail 1080p bluray movies perfectly????

Many thanks in advance

[netbooked]

I've never used a Blu-ray drive/disk before.. so I don't know if the provided software will work for it.

[Tearsofamandrake]

How did you get that working?

I Installed DivX Tech Preview and the DivX H264 Encoder Beta, but my Startrek 1080p wmv is still not running smoothly.

Where am I wrong? Please answer, I am quite desperate...

[netbooked]

Not sure what you are seeing but I looked at the video again and it looks good and it more importantly it plays back very well.

[lazarosk]

Hello i have the same acer but i can't have 1920x1080 - 1080p with HDMI connection... :( in my fullHDTV.

What i do wrong ?

[netbooked]

We can work through this via email if you'd like. Head over to my site (top right) and send a mail via the contact form.

[blackcatsaxo]

can this play 5.1 surround sound and how? thanks in advance

[cooldude2810]

This is such an epic PC to hook up to a projector. Shame it doesn't have 7.1 output. Otherwise would be perfect for a home cinema!!

[furiouspride]

The HDMI connection can do 7.1. You just need a receiver that can take HDMI inputs.

[dale456654]

Try VLC Media Player

[Niiclas95]

how to play games on it , if theres no cd slot:D

[netbooked]

It's not good for new games, unless you want to play old games. You will need an external DVD drive if you have games on CD.

[peterjaena]

there are such things as USB DVD drives..... invented years ago.

[cybershotredeye]

i have the exact same problem on youtube HD but im using a Aspire One 512MB 8GB

[times9]

so wot media players have you used that play mkvs 720 and 1080p using the gpu? id get the revo only for surfing abit and movies mainly.

i didnt know media player classic uses the gpu?does it use older gpus aswell or just the never nvidias.

[WetJetProductionz]

Also Is It Good For Playing Games Like

Call Of Duty 5?

[Portablemonkey]

It's no good at playing the latest 3D games. I tried HL2 and it was too choppy with low settings for everything at the lowest resolution.

[WetJetProductionz]

Do You Think IT will

be able to play tesiv oblivion

cause thats the main reason i want one

[Portablemonkey]

If there's an oblivion demo on the 'net I will try it out for you.

[WetJetProductionz]

Dear Portable Monkey Is Windows 7 the Best

-JohnnyMuchwano

[tinypeanuts]

Have you tried VLC media player?

[Portablemonkey]

I can't get VLC player to use hardware acceleration.

[Blitzkrieg1981]

@Portablemonkey I've used VLC player on the Revo 330 (dual core) which is just like media player lite. No problem with 1080p. The CPU usage is about 80 percent without GPU acceleration.

[paimansli]

what is name of the movie ?

[Portablemonkey]

I played "Enemy of the State" and "Bourne Identity" in 1080P HD.

[alexgittia]

nice video i might get an aspire revo

[Portablemonkey]

Hey guys you might need to put the volume up to hear me speak, volumes a little low.

Peter