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<blockquote data-quote="DennisOlof" data-source="post: 971996" data-attributes="member: 137830">I would advice against using E-350 or E-450 for a HTPC, if you are using a card to receive HDTV and other things. As people have explained it does take a lot of tweaking and so on to get it working right. But using it for a HTPC, where you intend to playback blu-ray, other media files, surfing the web on your TV and son on. It is great, a bit slow on applications but not to bad that you can not accept it.&nbsp;But for all that to work on the cpus you need DXVA, so the applications can use the graphics card to accelerate the video. I have played back 720p 1080p and other videos on a dual core amd C-60 cpu without any problems, cpu load about 30-40% on 1080p with &quot;media player classic - home cinema&quot; the best part is that it is DXVA out of the box, no need to configure nothing. Oh, and forget using Intels Atom or nvidia ION, they are both limited in lots of ways.&nbsp;The problem is some stuff, like VMA and other more &quot;odd&quot; formats don't use DXVA or sometimes can't use it, then you will not be able to play that back. Thats where CPU power comes into play. My older cpus where to slow, but my skt775 3.0Ghz dual core can playback these files anyway, even though the cpu load is high. So now you know, it all depends on what you will use the HTPC for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DennisOlof, post: 971996, member: 137830"] I would advice against using E-350 or E-450 for a HTPC, if you are using a card to receive HDTV and other things. As people have explained it does take a lot of tweaking and so on to get it working right. But using it for a HTPC, where you intend to playback blu-ray, other media files, surfing the web on your TV and son on. It is great, a bit slow on applications but not to bad that you can not accept it. But for all that to work on the cpus you need DXVA, so the applications can use the graphics card to accelerate the video. I have played back 720p 1080p and other videos on a dual core amd C-60 cpu without any problems, cpu load about 30-40% on 1080p with "media player classic - home cinema" the best part is that it is DXVA out of the box, no need to configure nothing. Oh, and forget using Intels Atom or nvidia ION, they are both limited in lots of ways. The problem is some stuff, like VMA and other more "odd" formats don't use DXVA or sometimes can't use it, then you will not be able to play that back. Thats where CPU power comes into play. My older cpus where to slow, but my skt775 3.0Ghz dual core can playback these files anyway, even though the cpu load is high. So now you know, it all depends on what you will use the HTPC for. [/QUOTE]

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