Your Very First HTPC? But Where do You Start?

Not sure that's powerful enough. I currently have a 330 (2x 1.6 Ghz Atom), scoring 633 at Passmark. The Sempron 140 has 768. So the difference appears pretty low, the only advantage I'd have would be from the GT 220...

And the TDP of the Sempron 140 is identical to that of the X2 240e (scoring 1615) and the i3 2100T (scoring 2750).

Hammi Wrote:Not sure that's powerful enough. I currently have a 330 (2x 1.6 Ghz Atom), scoring 633 at Passmark. The Sempron 140 has 768. So the difference appears pretty low, the only advantage I'd have would be from the GT 220...

And the TDP of the Sempron 140 is identical to that of the X2 240e (scoring 1615) and the i3 2100T (scoring 2750).

Like I said, you can easily unlock the 2nd core for free, many AMD boards support core unlocking. An i3 is also 3 times the price of the Sempron 140.

I purchased THIS

eskro, I am building one from scratch and have read a ton on the forum to determine the best HTPC setup. My plan was the following, can you comment on your thoughts and how this system compares to the ones you recommended, particularly playing full 1080P, bitstream audio to A/V receiver, and streaming netflix HD:

HTPC: Zotac ZBOX ZBOXHD-ND22-U Intel dual core CULV SU2300 NVIDIA ION graphics processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856173012

Memory: Mushkin Enhanced Essentials 4GB (2 x 2GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226019

SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX40G 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227610

OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit



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It is having issues with 1080p =( laggy

Planet Earth Source Blue Ray 85 gig total split up into episodes around 8 gig each

Using VLC player

Works fine on my desktop with better specs.... Gonna play around with drivers really hope i didn't waste my money.......

nirvana252, perfect! your build should eat 1080P for breakfast
you could even drop to 2x1GB or ram!

This setup is not eating 1080 for breakfast.........

Windows 7 64 bit updated to service pack 1
drivers all updated
files on a usb 2.0 tb drive .... like i said when hooked to my nice laptop play fine
Using a DVI cable and audio port on the front to play video
Playing with latest version of VLC
processor seems to weak getting a 3.8 rating in windows


does this need to be over clocked to get flawless 1080p playback

glitch and audio syncs tried with 6 different files


TXT with files....
SouRCe : Blu-Ray VC-1 ReSoLuTioN : 1920x1080 FRaMeRaTe : 23.976 FPS

| LaNGuaGe ......... Dutch
| SouRCe ........... Blu-Ray
| CoDeC ............ DTS 5.1 1.5 mbps
|
| LaNGuaGe ......... English
| SouRCe ........... Blu-Ray
| CoDeC ............ AC3 5.1 640 kbps
|

SuBTiTLes : Dutch
FoRMaT : SRT

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|
| CoNTaiNer : MKV

Its hard to understand what you are talking about. If you can't get full hd on this build it means you are doing smth wrong. Probably you are not using ion hw acceleration.
Possible causes:
1. Win xp - switch to vista / 7
2. Using software without hardware support for decoding full hd - switch / get special version with dxva2 support.

that could be the problem... I can't find what drivers I should be using... Any help ? any settings I have to change to enable to hardware acceleration ?

Thanks on Zotac fourms now not finding much

have you enabled Hardware Acell in XBMC??

nirvana252 Wrote:that could be the problem... I can't find what drivers I should be using... Any help ? any settings I have to change to enable to hardware acceleration ?

Thanks on Zotac fourms now not finding much

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=How...or_Windows

but you need windows 7 for Hardware Acell in XBMC!!

Setting enabled

I'm going to download this driver and ill report back

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvis...river.html