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I spent half my life as a computer technician and field support. Only recently started to discover overclocking in depth and i must admit i like it. Still wouldn't reccomend it for mission critical tasks (servers). a week ago i tried to run 1080p on a single core (2.4Ghz) amd 3800+ and quite honestly it did fail. Well after clocking it at 3Ghz by fsb only, i managed to play the short cartoon by pixar - Presto (roughly 12min) without a single frame drop. Did that with low quality ddr2@533 and 1Gig of ram (why would one need 2-4Gigs for xbmc is beyond me). 720p content uses 45-51% of that cpu. I think im keeping that junk althrough i have an extra c2d 4500 since i intended it for the first xbmc box which should do better and clocks to 3Ghz easily.
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Update: Cant play reliably all the planet earth 1080p videos, can however many more 1080p which are less taxing (lower res). Even with analog output.
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I have now made the decision based on the excellent replies that it is not worth me spending money on a system that will play most/90%+ 1080p.
This thread still has value to people that already have this CPU but IMO its a false economy to purchase/design a new system based on anything short of an E8400.
Thank you for all your excellent information.
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An e8400 is quite simply an overkill for 1080p. I have one althrough clocked to 3.6Ghz and playing 1080p content on it is a very light task. An older 2.2 / 2.4Ghz c2d will do the trick.
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For comparison my htpc is based on older equipment : running an amd fx-55 cpu and a nvidia 7900gto graphics card, memory is 3gb of ddr2 and the os is xp.
It plays 1080P just fine, never have noticed any problems with anything, however i would like to test my system, i have downloaded the killa sample to test my rig with but beyond that i am not really sure how to go about it, if someone could give me some pointers that would be great.
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Loft - Intel I5-3570K, Asus P8Z77-LX, Corsair 16GB DDR3, AMD HD 7700, AOC 27" LCD
Bedroom - Intel I3-530, Intel DH55HC, Corsair 4GB DDR3, Nvidia G610, Samsung 37" HDTV
Living Room - Intel E8400, Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia G610, Samsung 52" HDTV