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<blockquote data-quote="etheesdad" data-source="post: 420823" data-attributes="member: 84335">The reference above I was making was to 1080i, not 1080p. 1080i is a lot more cpu intensive and I wanted to flag that with you. If the HDTV where you are is in this format and you are using 9300/9400 nvidia you will need a *much* more powerful CPU to do HDTV. (on amd 780g users here reference a Phenom to get the job done)In regard to the menu navigation its prickly because the only way to do the testing would be on a machine with the same gpu as the one you're using and with two CPU options, to discern the extent to which the navigation is determined by CPU over GPU. I did run MP on my lappie, but it has 64meg GPU, (and was hopelessly sluggish) - I have no way to try a different GPU in it so cant isolate whether it was the processor causing the menu lag.The Wiki hardware requirements are pretty specific about HD content and MP - according to them you need 2ghz dual core or higher. I can tell you the p4 I had was hopeless for HDTV, but I never ran it with a higher end GPU so there, again, impossible to isolate the issue. The Cyberlink site suggests 3.0 single core or higher, so this does question the viability of the Atom platform. I know you want to keep power req's down but I think the 775 option may be the way to go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="etheesdad, post: 420823, member: 84335"] The reference above I was making was to 1080i, not 1080p. 1080i is a lot more cpu intensive and I wanted to flag that with you. If the HDTV where you are is in this format and you are using 9300/9400 nvidia you will need a *much* more powerful CPU to do HDTV. (on amd 780g users here reference a Phenom to get the job done) In regard to the menu navigation its prickly because the only way to do the testing would be on a machine with the same gpu as the one you're using and with two CPU options, to discern the extent to which the navigation is determined by CPU over GPU. I did run MP on my lappie, but it has 64meg GPU, (and was hopelessly sluggish) - I have no way to try a different GPU in it so cant isolate whether it was the processor causing the menu lag. The Wiki hardware requirements are pretty specific about HD content and MP - according to them you need 2ghz dual core or higher. I can tell you the p4 I had was hopeless for HDTV, but I never ran it with a higher end GPU so there, again, impossible to isolate the issue. The Cyberlink site suggests 3.0 single core or higher, so this does question the viability of the Atom platform. I know you want to keep power req's down but I think the 775 option may be the way to go. [/QUOTE]

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