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My main living room htpc is a home made i3 based system. Would I notice any time of improvement by changing it to an i5?
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Bedroom HTPC: Zotac-ID 41 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Rii micro keyboard remote, Samsung HW-E550, Sony 32" Google TV, OpenElec 6.0 beta 4
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Highly unlikely. What seems to be the problem now?
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There isn't a problem. I heard that playing of ISO's and MVC's is supported, just not hardware accelerated so I thought maybe an i5 would do it better.
Server: Synology Diskstation 1511+ with 8x WD Red NAS 3TB drives, DSM 5.2
Main HTPC: Home Built i3, 8GB RAM, Corsair 128GB SSD, nVidia 630GTX, Harmony Home Control, Pioneer VSX-53, Panasonic VT30 65" 3D TV, Windows 10, Isengard
Bedroom HTPC: Zotac-ID 41 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Rii micro keyboard remote, Samsung HW-E550, Sony 32" Google TV, OpenElec 6.0 beta 4
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whats your cpu load when playing an ISO or MVC file?