Headcase_Fargone
Limp Gawd
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- Mar 25, 2010
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I've been enjoying the I3-based HTPC that I built a few months ago in the living room so much that I'm considering building a second one. I'd like to keep the cost of this second box down as much as possible so I've been looking into the AMD E-350 (Zacate) kits.
Is anyone currently running an HTPC on one of these APUs? Are you running Windows 7 or Linux? WMC, Media Browser, XBMC?
I'm really curious to hear what kind of real-world performance can be squeezed out of these since the price is so reasonable. Everything that I've read has (mostly) stated that 1080p MKVs run fine and that the only playback issues are with Netflix and are related to Silverlight not taking advantage of the hardware. That should be changing later this year from what I gather.
How is GUI performance in your chosen front-end though? Snappy? Sluggish?
Is anyone currently running an HTPC on one of these APUs? Are you running Windows 7 or Linux? WMC, Media Browser, XBMC?
I'm really curious to hear what kind of real-world performance can be squeezed out of these since the price is so reasonable. Everything that I've read has (mostly) stated that 1080p MKVs run fine and that the only playback issues are with Netflix and are related to Silverlight not taking advantage of the hardware. That should be changing later this year from what I gather.
How is GUI performance in your chosen front-end though? Snappy? Sluggish?