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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/23/2013 10:31 PM, Nick Rout
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Christopher Kerr <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mythtv@theseekerr.com"><mythtv@theseekerr.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Matt Emmott <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com"><memmott@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So, Intel has what they call a NUC, which stands for "Next Unit of
Computing", a SFF machine stripped of all legacy parts and sold as a
barebones PC. The latest one comes in two models, both of which appear to be
i3 Ivy Bridges, one having Ethernet and the other a Thunderbolt Port. I
first read about them in an Engadget article at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/23/intel-nuc-review/">http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/23/intel-nuc-review/</a>
It seemed interesting... For $299 plus some parts, you end up with a decent
little frontend. But, I searched NewEgg for NUC and found what appears to be
the older model at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102004">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102004</a>. It's the
same form factor and similar features as the Ethernet model, but instead of
an i3 it has an "Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHZ", and it's almost half the price
at $165 plus shipping.
At that price, one could maybe have a full 1080p FE for under $300 (or under
$200 with one 2GB SO-DIMM and net-boot). The problem is, I can't find any
information on what sort of video chipset (or SOC or whatever) this older
model has. Does anybody have any experience with this Celeron SOC and what
other video bits it supports and more importantly, if it would be a good FE?
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Celeron 847 is a very cut-down Sandy Bridge based part designed to be
embedded on mini-ITX motherboards like an Atom.
As such, it's got a cut down graphics core based on Intel's HD
Graphics 2000, but with very low clockspeeds.
I have no idea if the video decoding bits needed for VDA are left
alone - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_847_nm70_review,7.html">http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_847_nm70_review,7.html</a>
seems to suggest that it might be doing decoding in hardware, since
CPU utilisation is pretty low and it's not a fast chip, but that's the
only test I can find for it.
The video encoding features are definitely fused off in the Pentium
and Celeron processors, but I don't think the same is true of the
decoding - I've got an Ivy based Pentium next to me at the moment, and
it will play back HD H.264 content with 1-4% CPU usage.
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There are positive reports for the NUC in the xbmc forums, but then
again I have found that some people there have lower expectations than
us myth users - and ofte they are gearing for "ripped" video as
opposed to recorded TV with the need for deinterlacing.</pre>
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if you are looking to spend between 2 and 3 hundred why not the
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