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The TDP isn't an indicator for an low idle Watt consumption. So your A6 will only consume 65W when it's at 100% CPU Load.
Your Torrent machine have to download 5 files, have to unzip one File and have to play an Movie at the same time?
I think that could be too much. Or do you pause your Jobs while you are watching movies?
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Been looking into both of these platforms too . My current htpc is a E350N with 4gb ram which works fine in my bedroom running 24/7 for over 2 years now seeding all the time anywhere between 50 to 70 torrents , never had to pause or close utorrent to watch any films . It's also running win7 lite , utorrent , avg and xbmc and the cpu never reaches 40% unless I run winrar at the same time .
I intend to build a sff for the living room which will either be a Q1900 or quad core on a Am1 board . The only problem I have hit so far is my old Yamaha amp does not take hdmi inputs only spdif optical or coaxial and only the asrock Q1900 and the Am1h-itx Mobo has it which are still pricey compared to the rest of them . Oh and I also need a usb3 header for my front panel .
If I have overlooked any other boards please let me know .
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Got the MSI j1900 setup today it seems to play blu ray rips with pass through dts-ma. The only problem I can see is I can't wake from s3 using USB its set in the BIOS but I get nothing
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been waiting for your review for a couple of days goujam, dissapointed its so brief lol. wheres the "its the best bang per buck hardware out there" how easy was it to install. what peripherals ram etc are you using. PICTURESSS lol
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2014-07-12, 23:16
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-12, 23:23 by goujam.)
Ha ha sorry I've been trying to sort the s3 wake up I've not had time to do much else. I came from a celeron 847 which too be fair worked well I got bored and ordered the j1900.
Specs wise I have the j1900 board running with 2gb ddr3 1066 I had it spare. I run openelec on a ocz 60gb ssd so its completely quiet, boot up from cold is around 12 seconds.
The first problem I ran into was my denon amp or TV wouldn't display the bios in its low resolution. So I had to set it up on the TV upstairs, to be fair I only turned wake from USB on. I've played a few films to test dts-ma and Dolby true HD and it all works
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What so you mean by s3 wake up by usb? Is this like the wake on lan?
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Thanks goujam, sounds pretty cool, I recall seeing that feature (wake from remote thing) from the list of stuff its supposed to do. I hope you get this sorted.
How is upscalling on this? can you confirm if playing sd on your HD tv uses anything better than billinear? I dont actually know how to do that lol