[boognish43]

Hi all, I am wanting to make a purchase today and figured I would get some other opinions before I made the purchase.

I am debating between these 2 systems

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-AMD-E-450-1...3a82981598

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-Intel-Celer...3cd3361111

I plan on adding 2gb more ram, running windows 8, xbmc, sickbeard, netflix streaming etc

which one would suit my needs better?

thanks for any input!

[cwide]

I would definitely go for the Celeron. Netflix is a CPU bound operation mostly. I'm not sure the AMD processor could do Netflix HD. The Celeron can for sure.

You also want more CPU for Sickbeard/SAB. The Celeron is roughly 2x as powerful as the E-450 (CPUbenchmark). Celeron graphics are also just fine for anything except 3D (and maybe some rarely used codecs).

[boognish43]

great info..thanks!