Re: ASRock 330 Brings Affordable HDMI 1080P XBMC Solution

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently bought a Zotac N330 motherboard with the dual core Atom
chip
- so far it's played everything I've thrown at it, including .m2ts files
taken directly from Blu-Ray disks at no more than 15% CPU, even during
high bit-rate scenes (although audio is going out via spdif, so no
decoding cost for that).

I bought an M350 case (about this size of a car radio), but the noise of
the air blowing through its grid of little holes is too loud, so I'll
probably upgrade to an HFX Micro S1
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1251.html
with heatpipes before it goes under the telly.

Windows 7 + MPC-HC and IE for browsing my movie collection via my
intranet - working well so far.

Mal



Andy Davies wrote:
>
>
> 2009/9/23 Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:lists%40automatedhome.co.uk>>
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> The Asrock still looks too much like a PC to me so I've been waiting
> for the
> new dual core Acer Revo to come out before giving this a whirl (oh and
> some
> spare cash of course)
>
> From the xmbc forums the single core Atom can struggle a bit, although
> some
> people seem very happy with them
>
> Andy
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