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(2016-08-05, 17:32)tredman Wrote: This is a very random thread. I run kodi on an i7 desktop, 2 shields, 2 RPi (2 & 3), a shield K1 tablet and a surface. In terms of actually using kodi they all run as well and as fast as I would ever need.
Why would you want a super dooper fast processor for no appreciable benefit other than a higher electricity bill?
Caveat - I also have a wetek Play v1, that is too slow to run kodi acceptably.
Edge cases (insane skins, very demanding video codecs that don't have hardware decoders yet) and some moderate living room gaming (depending on the GPU). The living room gaming thing seems to be getting more popular lately, since you can get reasonable power in a tiny package, rather than a full tower.
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Meh, GeForce Now requires a subscription and still isn't as good as playing the native game for certain games. Gamestreaming makes more sense locally, IMO.
There's actually a lot of GUI things you can do in Kodi that won't make the system less reliable. You can crank up all of the thumbnails and posters to their highest quality, you can use the higher quality downscaling for artwork, generate thumbnails faster (for files), show more skin animations, get really crazy with ShaderToy, and more. It's an edge case, for sure, but it's actually really impressive what happens when you go "crazy" with raw CPU power and Kodi's GUI :)
but yeah, a Shield is more than enough power for my needs.
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Most of that is in
advancedsettings.xml (wiki).
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I disagree, when the Q10 Pro gets out of its beta test Firmware stage then it may be worthy.
I mean cmon, the Q10 cannot even play 23.976fps synced video reliably yet where as Intel (Haswell onwards) is rock solid, even a $25 AMLogic S905 running LibreELEC would have better video sync.
Its not just the GUI experience the Original Poster should be considering here.
I have yet to see a solid review of the Q10's deinterlacing prowess yet either. I would be very surprised if its better than Intel gear.