The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator enables high definition video playback on netbooks with Intel Atom processors that wouldn’t ordinarily have enough power in the graphics or CPU departments to handle 1080p HD video. It’s not a complete graphics card, but rather a media coprocessor that can be added to an internal PCIe slot in some netbooks. A handful of netbooks from Dell and HP are available with an optional Broadcom HD card. But some netbook users have been picking up cheap cards on eBay and installing them in other 10 inch mini-laptops for a while.
One thing I hadn’t seen before though, was a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator on a 9 inch netbook. But that’s exactly what EeeUser Forum Member horakus managed to create by adding a PCIe connector onto the mainboard of an Eee PC 901 netbook to make room for the video accelerator card.
It’s not the easiest hack on earth. But if you find yourself with a 9 inch netbook like the Eee PC 901 and you want to be able to play 1080p HD video on a non-HD screen, it loks like it is possible, at least on some models.
The Broadcom Crystal HD is available on eBay for as little as $19.
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hee. I did this on an Acer Aspire One.
I soldered on a second PCIE connector where the 3G card is supposed to go, and then bought a USB PCIe wifi card and installed it in that slot.
Then I put the Broadcom card where the old Wifi card was supposed to go.
The image you posted is of a modded 1000HE, horakus only posted images of the soldering points for the mod on the 901. But basically the mod may also be applicable to the 1000x models as well.
Update: horakus has posted a image of the whole 901 motherboard with Broadcom Crystal HD card installed in the 3G slot now, http://www.horakus.ro/board.jpg
Thanks!
I updated the post with the new image.
A good informative article and in my opinion asus is ahead in the race of making generation next motherboard.
Thanks,
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