2012-10-10, 22:14
FWIW, none of my HTPCs have either CPU. I have a G620 in my bedroom HTPC and a G530 + HD5450 in my livingroom HTPC.
I do the following on my HTPC:
- Watch DVD rips
- Watch 1080p blu-ray rips (with HD audio on the livingroom HTPC)
- Watch live TV, mostly HD from a SDHDHR cablecard tuner
- Xfinity streaming, Netflix steaming, ABC.com, etc.
- Listen to music and watch home videos
Additional specs: 4GB DDR3-1333, 128GB Crucial m4 SSD (+250GB HDD in living room HTPC for recording buffer), Win7 x64. Main media center software is Windows Media Center but also XBMC for me when the wife isn't looking (she doesn't like XBMC) .
In the kids' playroom there is a E-350 for movies and TV (no Netflix -- they watch that on the Wii) and there's a Linksys DMA2100 extender in the basement workout room. Right now the E-350 is stuttering on 1080p movies but I haven't diagnosed it. Everything else works. The extender won't play HD movies at all. Everything else works.
My office PC is a i3-2100. My wife's office PC is a i3-540.
My future plan is to replace the G530+HD5450 with a mini-ITX A8-3800/A75 system I've been piecing together. Not that I need to replace it but every once in a while I need to eat some of my own breakfast so to speak and I get jealous of all the amazing systems I put together, send out but never get to keep .
I do the following on my HTPC:
- Watch DVD rips
- Watch 1080p blu-ray rips (with HD audio on the livingroom HTPC)
- Watch live TV, mostly HD from a SDHDHR cablecard tuner
- Xfinity streaming, Netflix steaming, ABC.com, etc.
- Listen to music and watch home videos
Additional specs: 4GB DDR3-1333, 128GB Crucial m4 SSD (+250GB HDD in living room HTPC for recording buffer), Win7 x64. Main media center software is Windows Media Center but also XBMC for me when the wife isn't looking (she doesn't like XBMC) .
In the kids' playroom there is a E-350 for movies and TV (no Netflix -- they watch that on the Wii) and there's a Linksys DMA2100 extender in the basement workout room. Right now the E-350 is stuttering on 1080p movies but I haven't diagnosed it. Everything else works. The extender won't play HD movies at all. Everything else works.
My office PC is a i3-2100. My wife's office PC is a i3-540.
My future plan is to replace the G530+HD5450 with a mini-ITX A8-3800/A75 system I've been piecing together. Not that I need to replace it but every once in a while I need to eat some of my own breakfast so to speak and I get jealous of all the amazing systems I put together, send out but never get to keep .