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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:04:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jchlun$m06$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC557E52-C78D-41CE-BF03-A5E3EBDE8DE6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

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.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-16 11:11 [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips? Walter Dnes
2011-12-16 11:20 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-12-16 13:57   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-12-16 23:18     ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-17 15:18       ` James
2011-12-17 21:19     ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-16 21:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2011-12-16 14:13 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-16 14:27   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-16 19:00     ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-12-17  9:04       ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-12-17 21:20     ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2011-12-17 21:56       ` Dale
2011-12-16 23:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes

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