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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 855042" data-attributes="member: 111675">Hi there,Until last weekend, I was running an Athlon II x2 240e with 12GB of RAM in a M4A785TD-M Evo motherboard.I ran Windows 7-64 bit and MP off a Crucial M4 64GB SSD.I had some problems with MP (I am currently using 1.2.2) always being a bit laggy and had problems with it constantly crashing/freezing.&nbsp; I have just taken the MSI H61-E35 motherboard with i3-2105 out of my desktop and put it into my Mediaportal Server and I cannot tell you how much better it is.&nbsp; The problem is I cannot tell you exactly why - the CPU is faster than the Athlon Chip (though MP does not need anything particularly fast) and the inbuilt HD3000 graphics are a lower spec than the HD4200 integrated graphics I was using on the AMD board (maybe it is my imagination, but the picture quality seems to have improved on my TV).&nbsp;I can only put the improvements down to the much new technology of Sandybridge.&nbsp;I would wait for a few further comments from some of the real experts on here, but I would say that a cheap Sandybridge motherboard and low spec Chip would be a decent upgrade worth considering - e.g. G620.&nbsp; The I3 chips are probably a little overkill for a standalone setup of Mediaportal (and are still quite pricy).&nbsp;Hope that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 855042, member: 111675"] Hi there, Until last weekend, I was running an Athlon II x2 240e with 12GB of RAM in a M4A785TD-M Evo motherboard. I ran Windows 7-64 bit and MP off a Crucial M4 64GB SSD. I had some problems with MP (I am currently using 1.2.2) always being a bit laggy and had problems with it constantly crashing/freezing. I have just taken the MSI H61-E35 motherboard with i3-2105 out of my desktop and put it into my Mediaportal Server and I cannot tell you how much better it is. The problem is I cannot tell you exactly why - the CPU is faster than the Athlon Chip (though MP does not need anything particularly fast) and the inbuilt HD3000 graphics are a lower spec than the HD4200 integrated graphics I was using on the AMD board (maybe it is my imagination, but the picture quality seems to have improved on my TV). I can only put the improvements down to the much new technology of Sandybridge. I would wait for a few further comments from some of the real experts on here, but I would say that a cheap Sandybridge motherboard and low spec Chip would be a decent upgrade worth considering - e.g. G620. The I3 chips are probably a little overkill for a standalone setup of Mediaportal (and are still quite pricy). Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]

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