HDMI can also do ethernet, an add-in GPU and rolling over everything to HDMI might simplify your life considerably. Ofc this is without even beginning to mention VR that is just around the corner. As things such as Win 10/XBox streaming become more prevalent, the addition of a GPU will make everything run much nicer. You will have SIGNIFICANTLY less driver issues down the road when you start playing with FreeNAS, less wear and tear on a box that will see if fair share of thrashing, plus dedicated video processing. I would recommend running a graphics card still. I run a very near identical PC for my living room media server, including eventually running FreeNAS. So, anyone have any experience with these machines? Anyone ever get audio to work out the displayport on them? Display port does indeed do Audio, with a proper rollover converter to HDMI. I will eventually be installing FreeNas on this machine so I can use it for all of our home media. However, I bought this machine specifically because it had the displayport. I'd rather not buy a video card so I can make this happen, but if I have to, I will. I can't find a clear answer.Ĭonnecting an audio cable is not an option, because there is no place on the TV for an audio connection.

HP says it does support audio through the displayport, HP says it doesn't. There is all sorts of crap flying around about these machines. I tried updating the drivers for the graphics and audio card from HP.

Hp Compaq 6005 Pro Small Form Factor Video Card.

Hp Compaq 6005 Pro Small Form Factor Drives Windows 10.

Powered up the machine into a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate environment. Bought a displayport to HDMI adapter from (probably my first mistake-all crap there) Connected everything, including the adapter to my TV. I supported these things at a prior job and loved them, so decided to buy one to use as my media center at home. It's running the Athlon II processor, ATI graphics, Realtek sound (All integrated) This unit has a displayport++ on the back.

(It's actually been asked numerous times in other places on the HP site, and no one bothers to answer it.) I have an HP 6005 Small Form Factor PC.

Okay, HP has been no help in this, so I'm going to pose this question to the community.

Hp 6305 video driver