just look around and see what hatcback everyone else drives and get one of those
round here that would be a golf... reliable theres tons of them so theyre cheap and used replacements parts are dirt cheap as well
again sequential speeds are utterly irrelevant for 99% of all usual pc work
random is where its at and a good ssd will have a random read of about 60mb/sec while a hdd is somewhere down at around 0.1mb/sec
those benches dont really mean aynthing though
the only number that has any bearing on real world performance is random read and write
and yeah ssds are arsume
whatevers gonna come out other than price i dont see how anything could be much better than the pasive asus mobo which has both extrernal and usb3 connectors
i fail to see anything wrong with it... other than the lack of a display port
you state something that is flat out wrong then try to point an accusing finger at me and eventually dont even have the balls to properly tell me you think im talking shit?
im done with this
in your link the difference was about 10w at idle most of which would be the cpu
put in perspective with a build that consumes some 15-20w of power that difference is a 50%+ increase in energy consumption
you mean the one about them not being able to run at 23.976hz? well yeah that is a bit of an issue
that said it depends rather a lot on your setup eg does your tv and or projector support 23.976hz? does it actually support it properly instead of merely accepting the input and running the lcd at 60hz regardless
and then theres the issue of files you watch on it
im not aware of any player that automatically adjusts the graphics card according to the file thats being played back (although there might of course be one that does) and i peronsally would not bother with manually adjusting the refresh rate every time i open up a different video
most movies are shot in 23.976 but eg top gear is 25fps and i have a whole bunch of other files that run at refresh rates other than that
and on top of all that my eyes dont register minor frame rate sync issues all that much
seeing as youre american and probably used to the horrid 3:2 pulldown non stuttering pans might look wrong to your eyes anyway
power consumption mostly http://www.anandtech.com/show/2901/15
the intel solution is 32nm the amd one 45 so you have a fundamental advantage in terms of power
keep in mind that those figures are kinda on the high end of the spectrum with clarkdale builds that are well thought out you commonly see idle consumption of about 20w and down as low as about 15 http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=685231
also my personal choice when it comes to clarkdale would be an i5 since i have all of my drives crypted these days and the aes acceleration makes a huge difference in terms of cpu load and thus ultimately power (although i have to admit its a ridiculous choice considering the lowest 2nd gen core-i with aes-ni costs the same and has 2 more cores... which coincidentally is the reason why a clarkdale system isnt already in my posession)
also id like to point out that im currently using an athlon x2 (soon to be replaced by a second gen cor i once intel gets their chipsets sorted out) and in terms of low power cheap htpcs id currently choose amds fusion over atom so its not like im fanboying
theres a reason gpus use dedicated hardware for video decoding and its because low end gpu just arent powerful enough for opencl decoding
low end ati gpus dont even have the shader performance to do vector adaptive deinterlacing and thats just one step in video decoding
sure it was but thats a cpu with 3 times the cores that dwb wants to buy and each of them runs at a higher base clock
flash isnt a new format its just h264 in a container
yes they have
a lot of gpus cant accelerate xvid which is an increasingly popular format for 720p and 1080p
this is certainly true for ion and afaik every nvidia card out there
im not sure atm if its also true for fusion (iirc the 6 series ati cards do supportaccelerated divx decoding but im not sure if that decoding pipeline is part of brazos or not)
that is just not true particularly when it comes to linux where ati has to my knowledge been the worst while intel has been the best overall (although im not sure what the current status of the formerly broken clarkdale gpu drivers is)
sure but since a friend recently showed me that his air cooled hexacore i7 rig is for all intents and purposes inaudible from as little as about a metre away i dont consider this a huge problem for pretty much any htpc setup especially when you use it with a tv and not a projector and even then the projector is most likely gonna be louder
yes maybe but then down the road youll eventually be stuck with not being able to decode certain formats that arent supported by the gpu which an i3 will happily do in software without breaking a sweat
building a htpc is very much a matter of preference and philisophy putting you either on the high end dual core intel side of the spectrum or the atom/fusion end of it
power consumption wise the difference is pretty much negligible as long as youre using it just as a htpc
although personally i would have chosen uatx with upgradeability in mind
sure they do but theres more to a htpc gpu than just can it use dxva smoothly
theres stuff like support for 24p hdmi1.4a derinterlacing truehd-bitstreaming etc