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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 1014448" data-attributes="member: 76888">i3-3225 is a great choice for HTPC. It will be fine with doing those tasks. The i5 would be a waste of money. The actually distribution of the tv stream to clients does not need much processing power. The real work is in transcoding or displaying the tv stream. What OS is your NAS server running? It might be better to have the tv tuners in the NAS server because&nbsp;1. Don't need the main HTPC on when the 2nd HTPC is watching tv.2. main HTPC can use a smaller case and be quieter3. Don't need the main HTPC on when recording scheduled tv4. Use less power&nbsp;The advantage of having the tvtuners in the main HTPC are1. Slightly faster intial tuning of tv in this PC (~1sec), also sometimes channel changes are around 0.5sec faster.&nbsp;As Benoire said, the main reason for discrete GPU cards is because the inbuilt GPU is too slow (mostly older CPUs). There is the additional advantage that a good discrete GPU can do better post processing and higher quality decoding/scaling etc. The recommended discrete HTPC card is HD7750 (or if adding a budget gpu because no onboard GPU, recommend HD6450).&nbsp;The i5-4470T is also be a nice HTPC CPU because it will only be 35W. There is also the A6-5200 which is 15W (you could run this passive) but both of these are not released yet.&nbsp;I generally recommend the AMD A6-5400 (65W) over i3-3225 (55W) because it is cheaper (AMD motherboards are also cheaper) and still does a good job. However both are good choices.&nbsp;If the main HTPC is going to be a tv-server then allocate 4GB of ram for a ram drive and use it for timeshifting.&nbsp;RegardsKiwi&nbsp;PS. Don't forget to donate to us <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 1014448, member: 76888"] i3-3225 is a great choice for HTPC. It will be fine with doing those tasks. The i5 would be a waste of money. The actually distribution of the tv stream to clients does not need much processing power. The real work is in transcoding or displaying the tv stream. What OS is your NAS server running? It might be better to have the tv tuners in the NAS server because 1. Don't need the main HTPC on when the 2nd HTPC is watching tv. 2. main HTPC can use a smaller case and be quieter 3. Don't need the main HTPC on when recording scheduled tv 4. Use less power The advantage of having the tvtuners in the main HTPC are 1. Slightly faster intial tuning of tv in this PC (~1sec), also sometimes channel changes are around 0.5sec faster. As Benoire said, the main reason for discrete GPU cards is because the inbuilt GPU is too slow (mostly older CPUs). There is the additional advantage that a good discrete GPU can do better post processing and higher quality decoding/scaling etc. The recommended discrete HTPC card is HD7750 (or if adding a budget gpu because no onboard GPU, recommend HD6450). The i5-4470T is also be a nice HTPC CPU because it will only be 35W. There is also the A6-5200 which is 15W (you could run this passive) but both of these are not released yet. I generally recommend the AMD A6-5400 (65W) over i3-3225 (55W) because it is cheaper (AMD motherboards are also cheaper) and still does a good job. However both are good choices. If the main HTPC is going to be a tv-server then allocate 4GB of ram for a ram drive and use it for timeshifting. Regards Kiwi PS. Don't forget to donate to us :) [/QUOTE]

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