Re: Re: Machine recommendations?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The quad-core, 2+ GHz CPU @ 25W power dissipation should be plenty of
> power, even for playing media (one review said 80% usage of all four
> cores for 1080p, however, which it'll handle, but realistically not 4k,
> when I eventually even have a display that'll do 4k), and it should de-
> clock and power-down for routing-only.  And that dissipation, quite fans
> shouldn't be a big issue.
>

If you want to play HD video on an mini-ITX MB you're better off using
one designed for this.  I have an aging NVidia ION board that plays
1080p without a hitch as my mythtv frontend.  However, you are limited
to codecs that are supported by hardware decoding - I doubt I'd get
full HD on software decoding.

This is a router, right?

When you want a cheap tiny board that consumes 10s of watts with an
external power supply and doesn't need a fan, you are going to have to
decide in advance what your priorities are.  It isn't like a $250
CPU+MB+RAM system with a 500W power supply that is a general purpose
computing device.

-- 
Rich