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As for playing audio be it wav, flac or you favorite lossy codec there should be absolutely no problem with the C3 1GHz
Considder the fact that they have managed to get audio playback out of small handheld devices no problem, if a 400 MHz Strong ARM CPU in a pocket pc can play audio then surely so can a C3 1GHz
As for video I am not entirely sure, I usually play back from high compression formats of the MPEG 4 eara and the newests ones are starting to be a bit of a problem for my Duron 1.2 GHz but for MPEG 2 (DVD) i think the C3 1GHz is likely to be enough.
If i were doing my audio video pc today i would be going for the smallest AMD sempron i could find... you should be able to get a new sempron 2200+ less than $50
Originally Posted by akira I'm not sure what was the conclusion of this discussion. Is it realy need P4 2GHz or more CPU to play music from HDD? Is C3 1GHz enough just to run foobar (unless doing upsampling or any other special filtering)? I remember HTPC people prefered to run not top speed CPU to play DVD even in some years ago. It seems even C3 1GHz can be used for any purpuse we concern here, I mean playing WAV or watching DVD, etc, no gaming. Though i'm not an expert of PCs. |
As for playing audio be it wav, flac or you favorite lossy codec there should be absolutely no problem with the C3 1GHz
Considder the fact that they have managed to get audio playback out of small handheld devices no problem, if a 400 MHz Strong ARM CPU in a pocket pc can play audio then surely so can a C3 1GHz
As for video I am not entirely sure, I usually play back from high compression formats of the MPEG 4 eara and the newests ones are starting to be a bit of a problem for my Duron 1.2 GHz but for MPEG 2 (DVD) i think the C3 1GHz is likely to be enough.
If i were doing my audio video pc today i would be going for the smallest AMD sempron i could find... you should be able to get a new sempron 2200+ less than $50