- January 20, 2007
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Hi
Have been testing the Pipo x8 as the main client in my living room for about a week now, and like to share some preliminary experience.
In general it runs pretty good. (I didn't tell my wife that I had disconnected the other PC, and she didn't notice anything until I told her
Good WAF)
It runs a little hot(Up to ~82 in core temp when running HD channels for a while) but haven't noticed any throttle down on the CPU.
- Will prob. have to do some heatsink mod on it, sooner or later.
I use mediaportal mainly for TV and PVR, and it has been running fine so far. (No complaint's from the rest of the family)
Had an issue in the beginning, with long time channel change but disabled IPv6 on both the Pipo and Server, and channel change is down to a sec. or two, which is perfectly fine for my part.
Have seen some posts about running an external USB network dongle should improve a few things, and i tried that, but went back to the internal controller, since I didn't see any difference. (As soon as I disabled the IPv6 everything is smooth on my box)
Had no issues installing .net 3.5 as mentioned above either.
Having an extra screen is nice, but not really a must for my part. But it's quite fancy to run Mediaportal on the 60" screen and the Windows tablet interface on the internal screen. (Ex. check mail and weather etc. on the internal scheen while my wife is watching her series on MP;-))
I've put it on the wall, with the cables and the thick side down, so it's quite comfortable to use standing up, for a quick mail check for example. (No problem rotating just the internal screen in the intel control panel)
I've also installed the MPDisplay++ and it works fine on the internal screen, but not really for me. (A bit slow to start up, and I really prefere to use an remote to control MP)
My biggest consern atm, is the core temperature running a bit high after a while, but I guess that can be fixed quite easily. (Plenty of creative guides on how to mod the Pipo's out on the net)
I haven't tucked away the "old" PC yet, since I'm also a bit conserned about the long term build quality of a PC for as low as $100, but for now, I'm really quite Impressed. (It's price is lower than just a general Win8 OEM lisense
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Have been testing the Pipo x8 as the main client in my living room for about a week now, and like to share some preliminary experience.
In general it runs pretty good. (I didn't tell my wife that I had disconnected the other PC, and she didn't notice anything until I told her
It runs a little hot(Up to ~82 in core temp when running HD channels for a while) but haven't noticed any throttle down on the CPU.
- Will prob. have to do some heatsink mod on it, sooner or later.
I use mediaportal mainly for TV and PVR, and it has been running fine so far. (No complaint's from the rest of the family)
Had an issue in the beginning, with long time channel change but disabled IPv6 on both the Pipo and Server, and channel change is down to a sec. or two, which is perfectly fine for my part.
Have seen some posts about running an external USB network dongle should improve a few things, and i tried that, but went back to the internal controller, since I didn't see any difference. (As soon as I disabled the IPv6 everything is smooth on my box)
Had no issues installing .net 3.5 as mentioned above either.
Having an extra screen is nice, but not really a must for my part. But it's quite fancy to run Mediaportal on the 60" screen and the Windows tablet interface on the internal screen. (Ex. check mail and weather etc. on the internal scheen while my wife is watching her series on MP;-))
I've put it on the wall, with the cables and the thick side down, so it's quite comfortable to use standing up, for a quick mail check for example. (No problem rotating just the internal screen in the intel control panel)
I've also installed the MPDisplay++ and it works fine on the internal screen, but not really for me. (A bit slow to start up, and I really prefere to use an remote to control MP)
My biggest consern atm, is the core temperature running a bit high after a while, but I guess that can be fixed quite easily. (Plenty of creative guides on how to mod the Pipo's out on the net)
I haven't tucked away the "old" PC yet, since I'm also a bit conserned about the long term build quality of a PC for as low as $100, but for now, I'm really quite Impressed. (It's price is lower than just a general Win8 OEM lisense