> On 27/08/12 17:54, Ross Boylan wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
> >On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 17:35 +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>
> >>My suggestion<br>
> >>is, if you buy that motherboard, fill it with the biggest, baddest CPU<br>
> >>you can<br>
> >>afford and all the RAM you can get NOW. That way you'll still be able<br>
> >>to perform<br>
> >>the OS upgrades in the future when you need them.<br>
> >For an HTPC in particular there are other considerations: noise and<br>
> >power, both of which imply a concern with heat.<br>
> ><br>
> You think that an HTPC will /ever/ need an i7 and 32Gb RAM? [*]<br>
<br>
</div> No. But an HTPC may need something more powerful than an Atom. You might<br>
find something that chokes the hardware decoder on your GPU or you may just<br>
prefer some alternate software decoder for a particular bit of content.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And as of right now, I don't believe there is any (commonly available) content that cannot be reliably decoded in software by a Celeron G540. And when you need a faster processor, you should be able to get it far cheaper than you can now. I bought my Pentium Dual Core when it was ~$50, and now I can upgrade to a Core 2 Quad for as little as $7 on ebay: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item4d040359fb&item=330779810299&nma=true&pt=CPUs&rt=nc&si=Gr8ZQJLaZSBXSizNrNNeT3mFG4I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item4d040359fb&item=330779810299&nma=true&pt=CPUs&rt=nc&si=Gr8ZQJLaZSBXSizNrNNeT3mFG4I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>And I am quite certain that, 4 years later, my old Intel DG965WH LGA 755 based system can still be a viable frontend for at least 4 more with that cheap $7 upgrade.... and maybe another $10 for a 2GB RAM upgrade: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item3378d134c3&item=221070308547&nma=true&pt=US_Memory_RAM_&rt=nc&si=Gr8ZQJLaZSBXSizNrNNeT3mFG4I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item3378d134c3&item=221070308547&nma=true&pt=US_Memory_RAM_&rt=nc&si=Gr8ZQJLaZSBXSizNrNNeT3mFG4I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Mythtv doesn't need the latest hardware... don't waste your money getting the fastest system. Just be sure your buying the right stuff so you can upgrade later. </div><div><br></div><div> </div>
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