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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joz" data-source="post: 413838" data-attributes="member: 70244">First off, why the heck are you buying a gaud core CPU for a HTPC?It uses more power, more expensive and the cores are most likely idling all the time. If you want performance I would go with a E8xxx range because of the power consumption diff.In my opnion AMD is the best HTPC solution; X-2 5050E is really power efficient, also compared to intel. Because AMD has the memory controller integrated within the cpu. That also makes the motherboards cheaper.Second I would consider a ATi 4770 becuase of the lower power usage and almost same performance.</blockquote>