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Am I going to be happy with the Atom or disappointed?<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>I've been using an old dual-core atom in a Zotac motherboard as a combined backend / frontend for several years and I'am still happy with it.</div><div> </div><div>I don't ever do commercial flagging or transcoding though I suspect I would be dissapointed with its performance if I tried.</div><div> </div><div>Menu performance is fine but I'm using one of the simplest themes with no fan-art or preview window animation.</div><div> </div><div>It can't manage the MythMusic visualisations very well.</div><div> </div><div>The main thing I worried about was whether the on-board PSU would support the number of hard disks I wanted to connect along with the several USB tuners. I have an SSD, DVD, two spinning harddisks and three USB tuners - and haven't run into problems [yet].</div><div> </div><div>I'd say if you have an atom system available then give ti a go, but I wouldn't go out of my way to use one.</div><div> </div><div>D</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div>