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<blockquote data-quote="iancalderban" data-source="post: 384651" data-attributes="member: 85629">thanks. Do you get vector adaptive appearing in CCC as soon as you add this CPU?For me - I don't ever watch subtitles (I guess thats the difference of being native english, films already in my language) so thats a don't care for me. Lip-sync on the other hand does matter, but thats another story. Transcoding/ re-rendering if I need to do it I do offline anyway on my tv server box. I don't game either, and I use SPDIF coax for my audio (made my own for this mobo using basic parts from an electronics store). I found HDMI audio totally unreliable.Of course, I'm also concerned about power (=heat = more cooling needed = more noise) budget. So I don't want to put in a 95w TDP CPU to replace a 45W one. Can't find any -e phenom (and neither is the 7750) apart from the top-end (9350e) which is overkill / too expensive. the 8250e / 8450e seem not to exist any more.&nbsp; If this had been some months ago, knowing what I know now, maybe I would have got an 8250e instead of my 4850e. Such is life! On the other approach, ATI HD4550 seems like its only adding 20-25W to my TDP instead. I just need to find one passive+lowprofile.&nbsp; This card <a href="http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=285&amp;grp=3" target="_blank">SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E 1G HM HDMI</a> looks good, but can't find supplier yet.Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iancalderban, post: 384651, member: 85629"] thanks. Do you get vector adaptive appearing in CCC as soon as you add this CPU? For me - I don't ever watch subtitles (I guess thats the difference of being native english, films already in my language) so thats a don't care for me. Lip-sync on the other hand does matter, but thats another story. Transcoding/ re-rendering if I need to do it I do offline anyway on my tv server box. I don't game either, and I use SPDIF coax for my audio (made my own for this mobo using basic parts from an electronics store). I found HDMI audio totally unreliable. Of course, I'm also concerned about power (=heat = more cooling needed = more noise) budget. So I don't want to put in a 95w TDP CPU to replace a 45W one. Can't find any -e phenom (and neither is the 7750) apart from the top-end (9350e) which is overkill / too expensive. the 8250e / 8450e seem not to exist any more. If this had been some months ago, knowing what I know now, maybe I would have got an 8250e instead of my 4850e. Such is life! On the other approach, ATI HD4550 seems like its only adding 20-25W to my TDP instead. I just need to find one passive+lowprofile. This card [url=http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=285&grp=3]SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E 1G HM HDMI[/url] looks good, but can't find supplier yet. Ian [/QUOTE]

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