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2014-06-29, 20:48
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I'm running XBMC Gotham on an atom ION 330 (1.6ghz) with 4Gb ram. Smooth playback and have now got Ambilight working. My system is a big as a dvd player, and my phone is more powerful! OS is Ubuntu 12.04.4 64bit.
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An Apple TV 1 is basically an Intel Intel Pentium M from 2008 with 256 MB of RAM, and when coupled with a Broadcom Crystal HD decoder card (replaces the wifi card on the internal miniPCI-e slot) it still does a pretty dang good job on XBMC v13 Gotham. I'm about to retire mine from normal use because of a few issues here and there, I have other hardware that can run XBMC, and because CrystalHD support might be dropped from the next version of XBMC, but it's still not a bad XBMC machine for those specs :D
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2014-06-29, 21:52
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I am running setups the same as you two.
2x Revos 3700's - nVidia ION2 does the video hard lifting.
2x P4 2.4GHz SFF Compaq/HP machines, with low profile fanless nVidia cards - GT220 in one GT 610 in the other. Again, nVidia does it well!
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I have a Revo 3600 and a 3700 - Atom N230 and D525 respectively., I believe. Couple of gig of RAM and an SSD in each, and they both get used every single day to stream HDTV, recordings, BR rips and anything else I need to throw at them... every now and then, I think about upgrading, and then can't actually think of a good reason why...
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one of my setup is an old eeepc 701 4g with last version of openelec installed on a sd card.
i use it without problems :-)
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2014-06-30, 03:47
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Openelec
Athlon 3200+
512mb ram
NVidia GT 520 1GB
Obviously the video card does all the work, I think more ram would make a difference, but it works well enough.
Seems to run standard Blu-ray (1080p, 1080i) and dvd mkvs smoothly, no visual issues and there doesn't seem to be any drops with normal playback, but I don't check that for every video I play. There will be few frames dropped if I mess around with the playback (ffwd, pausing etc.), but it catches up.
System is being replaces with something newer.
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Yes some RAM should help with flitting around in the GUI.
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Surprisingly, the GUI is pretty smooth.
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I also have a RaspberryPi happily chugging along in the bedroom running OpenElec. Previously I'd used Quartz as a skin but have found Amber works nicely as well. GUI is obviously not as fluid as something with more power, but playback is lovely, including 1080p. Gotham has really made a lot of progress with Pi functionality.
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I think this thread was about the lowest spec x86 machine, so Rpi is a bit of a cheat really...
However Rpi fits in too as it is low power cpu and high power gpu, just like an atom/ion or p4/nvidia combo. None of the low spec systems mentioned above would be any good without a decent gpu. nvidia have lead the way with this, with vdpau and the ion chipset and relatively low cost pci-e cards, both with vdpau support.
It is a crying shame that nvidia have gone out of the ion style market.
XBMC no longer runs on 1st gen xbox.
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Yeah, I did kinda mean x86 architecture. Until I replaced the video card, I was running with a very old nVidia 7300LE. Remarkably, playback of videos was fine although I couldn't use a skin other than confluence. Now it runs AEON MQ5 same as the downstairs rig.
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