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<blockquote data-quote="lubbe75" data-source="post: 320706" data-attributes="member: 83798">bolders, the Intel based motherboard that you mention sounds interesting, but as you said it still seems to be rare on the market. If it doesn't appear soon I will probably still go with the AMD solution. Also, I have heard that AMD processors give you more for the money in the lower ranges. Is there any difference in how much heat they generate for the same performance?Lucky_JL, that's a neat little box. Very attractive. Still, I think I will go ahead with the micro-atx. I recon that I might want to upgrade in the future with more things in the box, such as more than one TV-card, a real graphics card, wifi and other things. With a mini-itx case it seems very difficult, if not impossible, to squeeze in so many things and still keep it cool. By the way, this underclocking/underpowering thing that you talk about, is that a hardware tweak, or is it possible to do it automatically, &quot;gearing down&quot; to lower consumption and frequencies when there is no demand for 100%?And RAM-disk in MediaPortal? Can I read about that feature somewhere? My guess is that it's a setting to let MediaPortal occupy x Gb for itself, but what are the benefits? I haven't really found anything about that feature so far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lubbe75, post: 320706, member: 83798"] bolders, the Intel based motherboard that you mention sounds interesting, but as you said it still seems to be rare on the market. If it doesn't appear soon I will probably still go with the AMD solution. Also, I have heard that AMD processors give you more for the money in the lower ranges. Is there any difference in how much heat they generate for the same performance? Lucky_JL, that's a neat little box. Very attractive. Still, I think I will go ahead with the micro-atx. I recon that I might want to upgrade in the future with more things in the box, such as more than one TV-card, a real graphics card, wifi and other things. With a mini-itx case it seems very difficult, if not impossible, to squeeze in so many things and still keep it cool. By the way, this underclocking/underpowering thing that you talk about, is that a hardware tweak, or is it possible to do it automatically, "gearing down" to lower consumption and frequencies when there is no demand for 100%? And RAM-disk in MediaPortal? Can I read about that feature somewhere? My guess is that it's a setting to let MediaPortal occupy x Gb for itself, but what are the benefits? I haven't really found anything about that feature so far. [/QUOTE]

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