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On 12/16/2011 09:00 PM, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 16 December 2011, at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 12/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> With an (old) $50 card, you can get an old Core 2 desktop system to |
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>>> serve as an HTPC. |
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>> Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. |
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>> A Core 2 desktop system is certainly not "old". |
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> There are newer Core2s and older ones, though. The first ones were released summer 2006. |
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And they're just as good. I had one (E6600 2.4GHz). They can deal with |
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1080p just fine. Even better if you have a Core 2 with four cores, then |
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you can do other stuff too without affecting video performance. |
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The only reason I upgraded to an i5 is for video games (in Windows). |
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For everything else, the Core 2 from 2006 was very comfortable to work with. |
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