2015-12-28, 02:16
Agree 100% with Matt, Skylake not needed at all and a waste of money just for 1080p Kodi video playback.
These days there are powerful GPU/VPU's in Celeron Chromeboxes and Braswell's, which is exactly what you need for excellent Kodi operation.
CPU Grunt itself is fast becoming irrelevant if all you want to do is basic 1080p / SBS/HSBS (3D) / Audio and Video playback by using Kodi.
Its simple (HD Audio Passthrough included)
- H264/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Chromebox Architecture (no 1080p HEVC hardware decode)
- H264/H265/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Intel Braswell Architecture
Run OpenELEC Kodi on them both and you are good to go, and even then you only need 2GB.
These days there are powerful GPU/VPU's in Celeron Chromeboxes and Braswell's, which is exactly what you need for excellent Kodi operation.
CPU Grunt itself is fast becoming irrelevant if all you want to do is basic 1080p / SBS/HSBS (3D) / Audio and Video playback by using Kodi.
Its simple (HD Audio Passthrough included)
- H264/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Chromebox Architecture (no 1080p HEVC hardware decode)
- H264/H265/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Intel Braswell Architecture
Run OpenELEC Kodi on them both and you are good to go, and even then you only need 2GB.
