On 12/16/2011 09:00 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 16 December 2011, at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 12/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
With an (old) $50 card, you can get an old Core 2 desktop system to
serve as an HTPC.
Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs
just fine.
A Core 2 desktop system is certainly not "old".
There are newer Core2s and older ones, though. The first ones were released
summer 2006.
And they're just as good. I had one (E6600 2.4GHz). They can deal with
1080p just fine. Even better if you have a Core 2 with four cores, then
you can do other stuff too without affecting video performance.
The only reason I upgraded to an i5 is for video games (in Windows).
For everything else, the Core 2 from 2006 was very comfortable to work with.
