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lordsegan

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Hi, I just inhereted an AMD Athlon X2 240 based system from a friend.

Would such a system have enough CPU power to be a credible 2012 HTPC?

Will pair it with a decent vid card such as the 5670.
 
as long as you pair it with a card that has hardware HD decoding should be fine. I have a HTPC with a geforce onbaord graphics and x2 250 and it works great.
 
Yes, you'll be fine. I think there's one of those or a 245 in my parents' HTPC. My HTPC has an AM2 x2 5000 and both can play pretty much anything. Mine has an HD5450. I don't do any post-processing.
 
I will just reiterate what was already posted. Currently have an AMD X2 Athlon with a 5450 and my receiver currenlty does not decode HD. I will tell you that my HTPC set up sounds WAY better than my PS3 hooked to the same system playing a Blu-ray disc.
 
It will be just fine. I've underclocked a x2 4850 down to under 2GHz and used that with a 5450 and SSD to make a very low power/noise HTPC that does 1080p perfectly.
 
Fenris_Ulf said:
It will be just fine. I've underclocked a x2 4850 down to under 2GHz and used that with a 5450 and SSD to make a very low power/noise HTPC that does 1080p perfectly.
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Not trying to hijack this thread, but would an X2 4600+ work ok? It plays DVDs fine but I have never tried a Bluray yet. It has an HD 4850 512mb video card.

Also it currently runs windows XP, would upgrading to 7 be worthwhile, taking advantage of DX11?
 
enhanced08 said:
Not trying to hijack this thread, but would an X2 4600+ work ok? It plays DVDs fine but I have never tried a Bluray yet. It has an HD 4850 512mb video card.

Also it currently runs windows XP, would upgrading to 7 be worthwhile, taking advantage of DX11?
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I ran an x2 4600+ with a geforce 8500gt on win7 and never had any problems with bluray. If gpu decoding is working properly then the cpu is barely touched at all.
 
Meown said:
I ran an x2 4600+ with a geforce 8500gt on win7 and never had any problems with bluray. If gpu decoding is working properly then the cpu is barely touched at all.
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Alright, thanks. Does Directx 11 offer any benifits to video playback over DX9? Or are there any other reasons I may want to run Win7 rather than XP?
 
nlancaster said:
as long as you pair it with a card that has hardware HD decoding should be fine. I have a HTPC with a geforce onbaord graphics and x2 250 and it works great.
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^this

Your CPU isn't great but with the help of a decent GPU like a 5670/6670/GT 430 it will be fine with nearly anything you can throw at it (looking at you 1080p/60fps).
 
Note that if you need to play back 10-bit h.264 (pretty much only Anime fansubs at this time) your CPU will struggle, and 10-bit h.264 can't be offloaded to your video card.
 
magao said:
Note that if you need to play back 10-bit h.264 (pretty much only Anime fansubs at this time) your CPU will struggle, and 10-bit h.264 can't be offloaded to your video card.
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10-bit @ 720 on that CPU shouldn't be a problem at all. 10-bit @ 1080 will depend on the bitrate. Either way there isn't an Anime released today that doesn't come in variety of formats and bitrates.
 
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