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I am looking to build a new HTPC that can handle playing H.265 1080p Video. It will be a small form factor case and I'm looking for recommended CPU and video card. I can manage the rest.
Thank you.
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An Intel NUC7i5 will do nicely but likely a NUC7i3 is already good enough.
it's small, fast, not very cheap but has hevc acceleration built-in.
I think all righthtinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
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And then what about high bitrate 10bit 1080p HEVC on the Chromebox - how does that go Software only decoding ?
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2017-08-15, 16:23
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If I'm looking to build a PC for the future, what i7 cpu would you recommend?
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8bit only or the more demanding 10bit ?
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2017-08-18, 20:36
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I ended up getting a deal on a small form factor dell that had decent specs.
Dell 9020
i7-4790 3.6 GHz
16GB Ram
500GB HDD
Windows 10 Pro
I already have a MSI GeForce 210 1GB for the video.
What are your thoughts?
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I think you have a pretty expensive slide show machine, as both the Haswell i7
as well as the Geforce 210 are not capable of any hevc 10bit GPU video acceleration.
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You seem to be spending more money than an s905[x] box or odroid c2 would cost.
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4K h.265 would probably be problematic but I tried a few 10bit h.265 1080p movies on my old i5-2500k machine and they played perfectly. The CPU usage goes somewhere between 12-20%. With HW decoding (I'm using a GTX-1050), the CPU usage goes down to 1-2%.
You can get a cheap low-profile gt-1030 later if you feel like GPU decoding is needed for your usage. I actually think your i7-4790 will be able to handle most of the 4K-10bit-h.265 content with SW decoding (very heavy CPU usage obviously) since your CPU has much more raw power than my 2500K.