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Does anyone know if the A6-3500 is good enough to play 10 bit mkv's? You cannot use the gpu to decode it annoyingly so I was wondering how powerful the cpu part is.
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Balinus
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XBMC performance with the A6-3500 is really good imo, with a slow 5400rpm HDD. See my sig for some videos.
I can play 1080p youtube videos. I'll test tonight just to see CPU % utilisation figure.
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eskro
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A6-3500 is my favorite HTPC APU!
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That's good news, I am going to go for a larger case as I want to also fit all my storage in it too. Plus it will allow me to run a large heatsink so hopefully silent. That's good idle power too, seems like the perfect htpc cpu if I'm honest. Just a shame there isn't any cheaper FM1 m-itx motherboards.