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Is the one you have now a D525 + ION2?
The new Celeron mobile boards are nice if you need to fit something into a really small case. If you have a small case with a little bit more room, you can also do the desktop Celeron + H61 mini-ITX motherboard. A really nice build right now is the Pentium G640T + Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3.
I'd stay away from FM2 in a super small case. The smallest case I am ok with putting a Trinity build in is the E-i7.
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2013-01-22, 15:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-22, 15:47 by RaggSokk3n.)
So I've come up with some suggestions:
1.The cheapest option available of celeron in my country:
ZOTAC ZBOX NANO ID61 CELERON 867
2079kr = 371,25$
2.The cheapest option available of atom + nvidia in my country
ZOTAC ZBOX ID84 ATOM D2550 1.86 2GB/320 GT520M
2509kr = 448$
3.The cheapest ivy build i could put together:
FRACTAL DESIGN MINITOWER CORE 1000 BLACK M-ATX
279kr = 49,8$
INTEL CELERON G465 1.9GHZ 1.5MB S-1155
289kr = 51,6$
KINGSTON 2GB 1600MHZ DDR3 CL9 HYPERX BLU
99kr = 17,67$
MSI B75MA-P45 B75 S-1155 M-ATX IVY
499kr = 89,1$
Total of 1166kr = 208,2$
4.The cheapest fm2 build i could put together:
FRACTAL DESIGN MINITOWER CORE 1000 BLACK M-ATX
279kr = 49,8$
AMD A-SERIES X2 A4-5300 3.4GHZ SOCKET FM2 BOX
379kr = 67,67$
KINGSTON 2GB 1600MHZ DDR3 CL9 HYPERX BLU
99kr = 17,67$
MSI FM2-A55M-E33 A55 S-FM2 M-ATX
399kr = 71,25$
Total of 1156kr = 206,4$
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Now all these have compromises:
1.
+ It's tiny
+ low power
- It's supposed to be noisy
- I'm locked in to open elec
- NO hd bit-streaming due to the elec lock in with xbmc
- It's expensive
- no games
2.
+ It's tiny
+ low power
+ dGPU from nvidia so it can run anything
+ hd bit-streaming in any os
- It's supposed to be noisy
- It's expensive
- no games
3.
+ cheap
+ Powerful compared to mobile cpus
+ low power
+ quiet
+ option to add dGPU
+ not locked to any os
- large compared to the zboxes
- no hd bit-streaming in linux
- weak compared to the fm2 build
- no games
4.
+ cheap
+ Powerful compared to the others
+ not locked to any os
+ option to add dGPU
+ can play some games
+ quiet
- large compared to the zboxes
- no hd bit-streaming in linux
So I'm leaning to number 4 due to the extra power and low price
PS:
As you might have noticed I did not add hdd or psu; this is because i have a psu that i could reuse, the reason for me not adding the hdd is that a was thinking about running the os from a usb stick.
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Just saying that my net-book with 'g' can stream full HD so why wouldn't a newer 'n' capable receiver do to...
Problem is that although the net-book streams full HD the CPU cant handle it and stutters while playing it - therefore I'm looking to replace it.
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I had trouble streaming HD over N when both the HTPC and the server PC were sharing the wireless bandwidth (since neither are withing easy reach of the router). To solve the problem I got one of those "network over power line" gadgets for the server->router route, then the HTPC can gobble up all the bandwidth for the router-> HTPC trip.
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Just another "Why no atom/ion?" comment - I have a Foxconn 330i running 1080p and Aeon just fine...and that's in Windows 7, not even an OpenElec setup. Not sure where you're getting your requirements from.
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I have an Acer Revo r3700 (atom/ion2) it has been running Aeon Nox just fine since the day I got it (enabling dirty regions took cpu use down from 25-30% to 8-10% on Nox),
it streams full uncompressed blurays wirelessly just fine (I did though add a usb high gain wireless N dongle to it as the inbuilt wireless was very weak, which cost me around £15).
As an XBMC box it is great but the weak cpu is not much good for anything else apart from very basic pc stuff.
