MediaPortal and Celeron Processors (1 Viewer)

[Eeyore]

I am looking at buying a new Dell PC with a 2.8GHz Celeron processor. Other specs ate 128mb PCIe card, 512MB RAM, Compro DVB-T300 and 250GIG SATA2 drive.

Just wondering if it will run OK, or should i fork out the extra and get a Pentium4 D 3GHz?

I will be buying a new LCD TV in the next month or so with my income tax return (hopefully around AUD$1500) and will connect to the TV with DVI. So maybe thinking about HDTV too.

 

[dvdevil]

celeron

Runs fine on my Celeron no problems :lol:

 

[gxtracker]

Of course it will run fine on a celeron. What would make you think otherwise? :lol:

 

[Eeyore]

just thought the lower onchip cache may take a performance hit from the machine

 

[Callifo]

Only thing to consider is how future proof do you want it to be?

A celeron 2.8Ghz wont handle the newer format 1080p clips I dont think. (My P4 2.8Ghz wont) If you dont play to utilise those formats than Celeron it is.

 

[Puissance]

Nice, it's good to hear that Celeron's will work fine. I just bought a Celeron 325 at 2.53Ghz. I think if needed, I will overclock to 3Ghz.

 

[Nightmare77]

hey callifo,
does your p4 2.8ghz not handle 1080i hdtv to well, is that including the software that came with the cards or is that in MP exclusively , as i recently found my old athlon xp 2400 with a ti4200 runs hd on ten very smoothly

 

[Callifo]

Well I dont have a DVB card in my games machine but recorded mpeg2 HD is fine, its just any other format 1080i clip that wont work well. Eg. the QT HD format, I can barely run 720p, 1080p is maybe 5fps @ 100% cpu usage.

Do you know that Ten is 1080i? Thought it would most likely be 720p... Anyway, the actual MP box is only a 1.8ghz 2600+ and that has a very high cpu usage for both 720p and 1080i. 720p is smooth, but 1080i has microstutters on panning scenes.