[paylesspizzaman]

I tried out my Asrock Q2900-itx board with the MVC branch of Kodi and it seemed to work good with 3D mvc files. I only tried Kong Skull Island for the first 5 minutes, but it worked fine. I just used a DVI to HDMI cable with it. A guy on ebay had listed a Dell 3050 micro for $106 shipped, I ordered it, but then supposedly he screwed it up resetting the OS. So not wanting to spend $150 on the next cheapest 3050 micro, I decided to take a chance on a Dell 3646. I got that for $65 shipped, with the J2900 quad core CPU and 4GB of ram, 500GB HDD and power cord. The J2900 cpu seems to basically be a 4 core version of the J1800 (like in the 3050 micro). According to passmark, it scores about double the J1800. The J2900 seems snappy enough for general PC use as well, just not for Plex transcoding. The Dell 3646/J2900 seems to work fine for 3d MVC, again first 5 minutes of Kong Skull Island. I haven't checked out HD audio passthrough yet. So far I'm happy with the $90 I saved. Even though the 3646 is a pretty small desktop PC, it is still MUCH larger than the 3050 micro. Maybe a deal killer for people with limited space (or too much money . I'll try to post more info when I have more time to test things more thoroughly.