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<blockquote data-quote="Matt404" data-source="post: 861214">Hey all,&nbsp;I am in the planning process of building my new HTPC to output 1080p to my 64inch Samsung TV. It will pretty much be dedicated to running Mediaportal as well as browsing the net. I will be running 2 - 3 tuners and I have _a lot_ of 1080p MKV files. I also wanted the option of watching 3d movies (although this will probably be few and far between).&nbsp;So far I am struggling on choosing a CPU. I know I either want an i3-2130 or an i5. But as its not being used for games I didn't know whether there would even be a point having a quad core CPU?&nbsp;Also I am choosing a reasonable vga card, so most of the h.264 decoding with be offloaded to the GPU.&nbsp;I also wanted to make use of hardware de-interlacing whilst watching live tv. Do you think this card would do a sufficient job?&nbsp;So far this is what I have:&nbsp;CPU: i3-2130 or i5-2320 $139 or $179MB: Asus P8H77-M-LE $89VGA: ATI Radeon 1G 7750 $118 or ATI Radeon 1G 7770 $160&nbsp;Also I will have 4GB DDR3 and was thinking about a 60GB SSD for OS.&nbsp;Thanks everyone for your help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matt404, post: 861214"] Hey all, I am in the planning process of building my new HTPC to output 1080p to my 64inch Samsung TV. It will pretty much be dedicated to running Mediaportal as well as browsing the net. I will be running 2 - 3 tuners and I have _a lot_ of 1080p MKV files. I also wanted the option of watching 3d movies (although this will probably be few and far between). So far I am struggling on choosing a CPU. I know I either want an i3-2130 or an i5. But as its not being used for games I didn't know whether there would even be a point having a quad core CPU? Also I am choosing a reasonable vga card, so most of the h.264 decoding with be offloaded to the GPU. I also wanted to make use of hardware de-interlacing whilst watching live tv. Do you think this card would do a sufficient job? So far this is what I have: CPU: i3-2130 or i5-2320 $139 or $179 MB: Asus P8H77-M-LE $89 VGA: ATI Radeon 1G 7750 $118 or ATI Radeon 1G 7770 $160 Also I will have 4GB DDR3 and was thinking about a 60GB SSD for OS. Thanks everyone for your help. [/QUOTE]

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