Is Athlon II X2 245e a good CPU? (1 Viewer)

[doveman]

I was looking at the Athlon II X2 245e as a CPU for an HTPC I'm building for my brother, on a motherboard with IGP HD3200.

Would this be a suitable CPU for MP, video encoding and general internet duties?

 

[mm1352000]

Hi doveman

For video encoding it might be more desirable to have a quad core. It is a trade-off though - if you want low power and cheaper then it seems like an okay option. In the past people have had problems viewing 1080i in MP with the HD3200 (just not powerful enough). Don't know if that is still an issue.

mm

 

[doveman]

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind and see if I can find a cheap-ish quadcore maybe.

I don't think viewing 1080i is going to be a problem for my brother for a while, as this HTPC is only going to be connected to his old CRT's SCART (VGA-RGB) and running at something like 1024x576! I know the PC's still got to decode the file but I'd imagine the CPU can do that if the GPU's not up to it, but I doubt my brother will be trying to play anything like that anytime soon.

 

[CrashUK]

Hi doveman

For video encoding it might be more desirable to have a quad core. It is a trade-off though - if you want low power and cheaper then it seems like an okay option. In the past people have had problems viewing 1080i in MP with the HD3200 (just not powerful enough). Don't know if that is still an issue.

mm

The HD3200 can not playback 1080i its just to slow. So sd channels only. Could look at ati4250 still a bit slow for 1080i but can do it just PQ is not as good as other carsds. Could look at with AMD Liano A4 prices are good..

 

[doveman]

Bit late there CrashUK I ended up building with an Athlon II X4 630.

 

[CrashUK]

Bit late there CrashUK I ended up building with an Athlon II X4 630.

What gfx card did u go with..

 

[doveman]

HD3300 IGP.

 

[Philip Schuster]

the X4 is definitely faster, although it probably consumes more power obviously. But I would probably gone for something like this too.