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Re: Mini itx in a HTPC?
The EPIA M with 1GHz processors and above should be ok for this, as they
have much better maths abilities
built into the Nehemiah core.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mini itx in a HTPC?
> Be cautious too if you are using LAME to do audio transcoding - (for
example
> as the SlimServer doe The Via Epia boards I tried a while back
(800Mhz)
were
> not up to the job hitting 100% cpu and giving audio glitches. This was
the
> Windoze SlimServer though. The newer motherboards are faster though
(1Ghz
> 1.2Ghz )so I would love to hear of anyones experience playing a
reasonable
> bitrate WMA stream/file onto a Slim player.
>
> K
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Shore [mailto:nick.shore@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 29 June 2004 11:33
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mini itx in a HTPC?
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> > > Has anyone here use a mini itx motherboard (fanless one)
> > in a HTPC setup?
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> > > How does it perform? is it powerful enough?
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> > playback of dvd should be fine as the onboard mpeg2
> > decoder will handle that, divx can be a bit more
> > challenging - you really need something like the MII 1200o
> > to be totally capable.
> >
> > This can be run fanless in the e-otonashi case which we
> > demonstrated at
> > ukha2004
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> > > Also is one able to put in an additional sound card like
> > a creative live!
> > > so that I can get digital out?
> > >
> > the epia boards have digital audio out onboard.
> >
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