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by jnowski
Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:59 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Small quiet HTPC for Music and Movies
Replies: 10
Views: 5328

Re: Small quiet HTPC for Music and Movies

I have 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM on the A4 system. I may pop for some DDR3-1866 (newegg ~ $25). I always use a minimum of 4GB RAM on my machines, memory is cheap. The playon software is running on the WHS2011 server (H61/E8500 ~30% CPU load). The tubecore software runs on the client PC's. I'm running WIN 7 ...
by jnowski
Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:28 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Small quiet HTPC for Music and Movies
Replies: 10
Views: 5328

Re: Small quiet HTPC for Music and Movies

My A4-3400 based HTPC has video jitter/pixellation issues in the following situation: My server is a WHS2011 running Playon to stream content. The A4-3400 system is win 7 premium 32 bit with tubecore installed in media center. My other 2 HTPC's are intel based and play this content without any probl...
by jnowski
Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:06 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: low-budget HTPC
Replies: 17
Views: 11471

Re: low-budget HTPC

I have an old HTPC with the following specs: intel DG45ID motherboard celeron E3400 4GB DDR2-800 Radeon HD5450 fanless video card Win 7 premium 32 bit It plays everything I throw at it, including BD, flawlessly. I suspect that an H61/G530/HD5450/4GB ram will do the same. I have Playon running on a W...