[Palmtree]

I was thinking about getting an Acer Aspire Revo after reading these forums for a few months now, but to be honest, the Atom CPU scares me if I ever want to use this PC for anything other than XBMC.

I found another cheap acer for a reasonable price. The specs are:
AMD Athlon II X3 425
3GB DDR3
GeForce 9200

I know the CPU is better than an Atom, but how much? Can it handle 1080p without help from the GPU? The GeForce 9200 is lower than the ION (9400 i believe) but would it perform better because it's not integrated? (I don't think it's integrated anyway). And would the 3GB of RAM be of any benefit to me using XBMC Live? I will also boot win7, so I know it will help there.

Thanks for any help, and sorry if this is in the wrong place.

Palmtree

[nullpointrninja]

My Celeron E3300 can decode 1080p without problems and your CPU is even faster. You shouldn't have any problems unless you have videos encoded at a high profile level ([email protected] drops frames). I have 1GB running windows 7 and everything works ok.

[DaGround]

hey, i got and am3 board the asus m4a785td-m evo with an amdx2 250e and 2 gb ddr3 ram with wind7. this system is capable to play 1080 mkvs without problems. the largest cpu use i had was a 30gb transformers2 movie and the cpu had a load of something like 40% without using the onboard gpu. now i plugged in and geforce 275 and i can play every new game in 1920 resutions with full quality settings( something like a gamestation with 4x xbox controllers).
so back to your question, yeah your machine is awesome for xbmc and u can do other stuff with it and probaly for the next 2 years. if you got to regard the energy consumption, take a saving cpu like the 250e if you need power take the x3 or and x4 ( my main pc has the x4-955 with an ati 5850 and i dont feel the "more power" compared to the htpc )