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Hi there,
I'm helping a friend to build a XBMC based HTPC and trying to keep things as minimum as possible but without having trouble running it. I'm thinking of a 3.40GHz Pentium D with 533Mz 2G memory and 32-bit XBMCbuntu - does it sound reasonable? As the video-decoding load has been taken off to the GPU, we don't really need a very power full CPU, do we?
Any comment/suggestion much appreciated. Cheers!!
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As long as you have a nvidia card that supports vdpau you can use pretty much anything cpu wise. Thaat is way more than is needed, so will be fine.
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Thanks prae, for your comment. I'm gonna use ASUS P5N7A-VM with on board GeForce 9300, which supports VDPAU. cheers!!
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I've got the same board and use a cheapo dual core celeron, E1200. Works great. I'd go with the cheapest available.
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What about a P4 with 1G nVidia 9400GT (ASUS EN9400GT) card? Just wondering if I can use that spare CPU (as it's almost 7 yrs. old) and save me from buying one. Cheers!!
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Sorry guys, for banging the door again. Does single core CPU really matter or the dual core is the thing to go with? I see a really cheap Celeron 430 but single core. The Max TDP is only 35W, which I'm really interested in, compare to the 65W to 75W for dual-core processors. Can any one please advise? Thanks again in advance. Cheers!!
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Single core atom is fine as long as you are using hardware acceleration - should be fine with the celeron
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From the video playback info, it looks like XBMC does use the dual-core. I'm about to order a CPU; can anyone suggest if I should go for a dual-core or a single one? Cheers!!
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single core is fine. the whole point is that we do not decode using the cpu, it's the gpu doing the work.
xbmc runs 8-10 threads at any point so of course we "support" multi-core cpus as such, or rather, it's up to the os to run those threads on the most suited (i.e. least taxed) cores.