Ongoing How fast CPU have your Media Portal HTPC? (2 Viewers)

[tangmonster]

My 2.4Ghz celeron with 512mb ram and 5200 fx screencard seems very happy.

i have a 40gig ide for windows installation (also has pictures) and the 250Gb ide with all the movies en tv series. want to add another 200 gig later. I don't see why you need a better screen card than the barely dx 9 5200fx.

Even my home pc still has a 9550 agp screen card. Whish i had money to get a better card there though

 

[Game_dude]

I just got another AMD X2 3800+ socket 939 to replace My 3200+ in my media center, its clocked at 2.2 right now but will go little highier once I get a new hsf

 

[karamellz]

Right now I use my laptop, Intel C2D T5500 - 1024 RAM, cause all I watch is HD (except for shows that don't air in HD, duh). Waiting for the delivery of my new system, which is Intel C2D E6420 in a nice Antec Fusion case. Futureproof

Karamellz~

 

[givendale]

Intel 2.4 GHz, 1.5 Gig RAM, ASUS P4P800 Delux MB

Takes about 10- 15 seconds to change channelsbut since this is my first HTPC I have nothing to compare it to.

Mght try overclocking and see what happens.


Givendale

 

[SMa]

E4300, 1GB RAM, onboard gfx

fast enough for me

 

[dcwp]

Intel 2.4 GHz, 1.5 Gig RAM, ASUS P4P800 Delux MB

Takes about 10- 15 seconds to change channelsbut since this is my first HTPC I have nothing to compare it to.

Mght try overclocking and see what happens.


Givendale

I'm far from an expert on these things, but I doubt that processor power is slowing down your channel-change. I would be hesitant to overclock unless you are using this computer for other processes simultaneous with TV. Otherwise you'll likely get more heat than speed.

In the TV menu in setup.exe there is a place where you can set the delay for channel change. I'm at work now and can't remember where that is exactly, but you should be able to find it pretty quickly. It's set by default to I think 2 or 5 seconds, but I have mine set to .5 seconds and it works fine.

Also, if you have time-shifting auto-enabled it may slow down channel changing in my experience.

just my $0.02

 

[Tech Geek]

I just built a new box to be a TV server and it has a 3400+ Athlon 64.

 

[iain.sheppar]

I run a ...

Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz
1Gb GEIL DDR 3200

Havent tried any HD TV recording yet, but runs everything pretty well.

 

[Dubyahjay]

AMD 64 X2 6000 and 2 gigs of DDR2 800 here. Futureproofing for HD contents!

 

[illStyle]

This poll is not up-to-date anymore. It's the number of cores that is important rather than the CPU clock.


Regards,
Simon