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What processor do you use for your HTPC?

Athlon II x2 240 stock & undervolted
Went with AMD just because I had this nice AM2+ mATX board sitting on my shelf collecting dust.
I'll be upgrading it to SB/IB maybe this fall.
 
I have some miscellaneous issues (not even the 24p thing that everyone complains about) that I believe are a result of the HD 2000 graphics & Intel audio over HDMI. I'm not 100% certain yet - I ordered a 6570 as the HD 2000 seems like the most likely culprit. If that doesn't fix it, I'm out of ideas and the box will probably be repurposed to a NAS and I'll go back to paying Comcast for a HD box and hooking up a standalone BR player.

It's kind of a trade off - the lower power draw of the SB chips vs. the better graphics capabilities of the AMD APU's. After all the issues I've had pop up that seem to be performance related, I think I'd rather have the extra graphics power.

EDIT: Obviously other people have theirs working just fine with the SB chips, it could just be some weird hardware compatibility thing with my receiver/TV. A new video card is just a cheaper option than replacing either of those...
 
Living Room HTPC = Celeron E3300

Bedroom HTPC = Pentium G620
 
Both are OC'd Q6600.

Both are total overkill, though I got them for free :)
 
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000

It has seen a ton of use and has been super reliable for... almost 5 years now? I have an e5200 on a p45 board laying around... and an am3 board, but there's no real reason to touch the machine, it runs fine.
 
I just figured that I'd ask everybody.

I decided to pull the trigger on a Intel 2120T setup for my main HTPC. I got sick of the thing pulling 100 watts while recording a show with all the other hard drives off. And that's with cool & quite on running at 800 mhz!


I haven't built an Intel since the slot 1 days. I think it was a P3 1Ghz.
 
Intel Atom 525 Dual Core :) XBMC running on custom Ubuntu. Don't try this with Windows.
 
AMD X2 4850e with 780G onbaord gfx.

Runs XBMC 11 just fine, and the wife approves of the performance (tough customer). Didn't fare so well with XBMC 10, so I just use explorer and MPC-HC, 11 saved me from having to buy a GPU other wise I would have had to get cable, lol.
 
I just got done throwing together a couple of HTPCs
Living room:
amd A6-3500
8GB ram (gotta love how cheap ddr3 is now)
asus F1A75-M PRO
300GB WD VR (will be replaced with 2TB seagate 5900rpm drive soon)
antec 380watt green psu
no optical drive
Wattage used with above specs? Idles at ~35-40watts, load it up a bit and it'll pull about 60watts.

The bedroom:
MSI E350IA-E45 (fan might be small but it's not audible after backing off a foot)
8GB ram (didn't I tell you ram was CHEAP?)
2TB Seagate 5900rpm hdd
lg blueray burner
Enermax 350watt psu (before efficient PSUs really became popular)
Wattage used at idle? 45watts, full load around 55-60. This is solely the fault of the power supply I'm sure. this thing shouldn't use more then 40-45 watts under load.
 
lagittaja said:
Athlon II x2 240 stock & undervolted
Went with AMD just because I had this nice AM2+ mATX board sitting on my shelf collecting dust.
I'll be upgrading it to SB/IB maybe this fall.
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Same, except running at stock speed and voltage.
 
Core Duo e2160 stock speeds.

Does all I need flawlessly. HD playblack is butter smooth. Moving through Media Center is also nice and smooth.
 
htpc1 - hooked to 46" 3D LCD
Pentium G860/4gb/64gb ssd/bdrw slim/ATI HD750 OTA tuner on MSI z68ma-g45 mobo

htpc2 - hooked to 46" 3D LCD (Brothers setup)
Celeron G540/4gb/120gb hdd/ATI HD750 OTA tuner on MSI z68ma-g45 mobo

htpc3 - (hooked to hd20 1080p projector) on MSI z68ma-g45 mobo
2500k/16gb/128gb m4 ssd/ATI 6950 (toxic,unlocked) soon to add a few more tuners

IMHO the Pentium G860 is perfect for HTPC's and I've had no issue's with the HDMI audio or video, the celeron works very nicely too with 0 issues, but i figure the pentium is more future proof and I can drop in a 7750 and do lighter gaming with the G860.
 
Main (lounge) HTPC: E7500 + 9500GT
Secondary (spare bedroom/office - anime) HTPC: E2140 + G210

When the XBMC nightlies come out with 10-bit support (hopefully soon), I may need to swap the CPUs - currently I'm transcoding all the anime fansubs to 8-bit, but if I could skip that step it would be great. The main HTPC only plays back XviD and 8-bit h264 so it could get away with a much lower power CPU.

Since the ffmpeg bump should also come with multi-core h.264 decoding support the E2140 might still be enough though. Also the second HTPC has a PicoPSU so there's the possibility that the E7500 might put too much load on the 12V rail.
 
E3200. WMC isn't super fast with media browser and the guide, but i get about 30 watts playing a blu-ray and i was going for low power.
 
i3 - 550

If I did not already have it I would have purchased the 2120T w/ motherboard.
 
Athlon X4 645 OC'd to 3.4Ghz

It's a bit overkill but in my case my HTPC is beefier than my main rig anyways..(Main rig's cpu? an Athlon 64 X2 3800+...you get the idea).
 
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