[mythtv-users] hardware advice: ivy bridge vs nvidia

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Aug 27 18:14:31 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 06:23:44PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 27/08/12 17:54, Ross Boylan wrote:
> >On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 17:35 +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> >>My suggestion
> >>is, if you buy that motherboard, fill it with the biggest, baddest CPU
> >>you can
> >>afford and all the RAM you can get NOW. That way you'll still be able
> >>to perform
> >>the OS upgrades in the future when you need them.
> >For an HTPC in particular there are other considerations: noise and
> >power, both of which imply a concern with heat.
> >
> You think that an HTPC will /ever/ need an i7 and 32Gb RAM? [*]

    No. But an HTPC may need something more powerful than an Atom. You might
find something that chokes the hardware decoder on your GPU or you may just
prefer some alternate software decoder for a particular bit of content.

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