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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1020338" data-attributes="member: 83973">1gkar - as a baseline, what system are you using at the moment, and how does it perform ?&nbsp;My own feeling is that if you want the highest CPU power efficiency then Intel is the best choice, but to get enough GPU performance you need HD4000 graphics (or HD3000 for the older generation) - this rules out all the low-end (cheap) CPUs. Adding a GPU card to a low-end CPU blows away some of the power efficiency and adds cost, so that's a difficult trade-off....&nbsp;If first cost is very important, I think the AMD APUs are easily the best choice in terms of cost versus GPU performance (and the motherboards are usually cheaper than those for Intel). From the reviews I've seen, the idle power consumption of AMD is comparable to Intel - it's the 'on load' power that's higher with AMD. I guess you've read this - <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/6335/amds-trinity-an-htpc-perspective" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/show/6335/amds-trinity-an-htpc-perspective</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1020338, member: 83973"] 1gkar - as a baseline, what system are you using at the moment, and how does it perform ? My own feeling is that if you want the highest CPU power efficiency then Intel is the best choice, but to get enough GPU performance you need HD4000 graphics (or HD3000 for the older generation) - this rules out all the low-end (cheap) CPUs. Adding a GPU card to a low-end CPU blows away some of the power efficiency and adds cost, so that's a difficult trade-off.... If first cost is very important, I think the AMD APUs are easily the best choice in terms of cost versus GPU performance (and the motherboards are usually cheaper than those for Intel). From the reviews I've seen, the idle power consumption of AMD is comparable to Intel - it's the 'on load' power that's higher with AMD. I guess you've read this - [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6335/amds-trinity-an-htpc-perspective[/url] [/QUOTE]

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