2016-03-17, 01:10
I plan on upgrading my main rig later this year and would like to use the hand-me-downs to upgrade the home theater PC.
Option one is to take the Phenom 2 980 (4 core 3.7ghz) processor and mother board couple it with the GTS450 video card that is already in the PC.
Option two is to take the Llano (bulldozer core) APU from my wife's computer and give the wife the 980. The current processor in her machine is a Llano based APU, A8-3850, 2.9ghz built with bulldozer (turd-dozer) cores. The APU is currently cross-fired with A Readon 6670 video card.
Would the newer bulldozer core be more beneficial with encoding formats even though the Phenom2's have better IPC's?
Does kodi even support SLI/Crossfire...is there any benfiet to using the integrated APU's graphic? I can easily set the APU machine in the bios to use the more powerful card in the PCI slot otherwise the lower powered APU graphics chip-set will default if the program doesn't do SLI. If SLI doesn't work I would probably couple the APU with the GTS450 if the APU is the better processor.
Also, does Kodi take advantage of more multiple cores?
Option one is to take the Phenom 2 980 (4 core 3.7ghz) processor and mother board couple it with the GTS450 video card that is already in the PC.
Option two is to take the Llano (bulldozer core) APU from my wife's computer and give the wife the 980. The current processor in her machine is a Llano based APU, A8-3850, 2.9ghz built with bulldozer (turd-dozer) cores. The APU is currently cross-fired with A Readon 6670 video card.
Would the newer bulldozer core be more beneficial with encoding formats even though the Phenom2's have better IPC's?
Does kodi even support SLI/Crossfire...is there any benfiet to using the integrated APU's graphic? I can easily set the APU machine in the bios to use the more powerful card in the PCI slot otherwise the lower powered APU graphics chip-set will default if the program doesn't do SLI. If SLI doesn't work I would probably couple the APU with the GTS450 if the APU is the better processor.
Also, does Kodi take advantage of more multiple cores?