From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RbqDY-00067P-Gy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:06:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C76521C1E3; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1BD21C0BA for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52B21B4063 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:04:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.794 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.794 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.336, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.229, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZmjOPFDwK7yx for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910E01B405F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbqCA-00068f-Ol for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:04:42 +0100 Received: from athedsl-388898.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.71.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:04:42 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-388898.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:04:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips? Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:04:41 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20111216111133.GA1639@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-388898.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111117 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: b4be85da-9cdd-4d47-8902-81c99801b414 X-Archives-Hash: 6c4d149f68b168049b00145c6fee240e 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.