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I was thinking to buy a 5400k to see Hi10p anime but i don´t know if it´s powerfull enough or i must go for a 5600k
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The A-6 5400k will play 1080 just fine, go to the A-8 5600 only for 3D
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2013-06-15, 16:44
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-15, 17:27 by DJ_Izumi.)
I have a 5400K running XBMCBuntu doing 10bit 1080p just fine on 12.2. In a few very extreme cases it drops frames but 12.2 is only single threaded video decoding. On 13 it'd be fine, since 13.0 Gotham and it's alphas implements multithreading in ffmpeg.
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would you say the 5400 is enough for an general htpc? or should the standard be changed to the 5600?
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I'd say the 5400K is more than enough unless you're concerned about h.264 @ 4K, h.265 and VP9. But those are pretty big wild cards that are a year+ off before we start seeing that stuff fed into XBMC.