Another Revo thread, worth getting a R3600 ot R3700

Schizophonic · 6 Feb 2011 at 22:52

By common sense, the R3700 is the newest and in some places cheaper than the R3600!

Been looking to get one for my auntie for online tv streaming, watch some mkv content and general usage. Looked at some blogs online and they montioned the newer ION 2 on the R3700 is slower than the original ION on the R3600!

What gives?

Also the dual core on the R3700 is a bit faster than the single core R3600, no huge improvement.

What gives again?

by terms of comparing side by side the R3600 seems like the better purchase. Does anyone here have the R3700 and play back is fine with movies and online content?

Venares · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:59

It's slowed because of the way the new atoms where redesigned.
Where the ION1 hangs off the northbdige and has pretty much full bandwitb available to it the ION2 has to hang off a PCI-E 4 lane directly connected to the CPU.

In real world use however it's no slower than the ION1.

Schizophonic · 12 Feb 2011 at 00:34

I took the plunge and ordered the R3610, will put Windows on it tomorrow and test if it works fine with online streaming and etc.

pumaz · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:25

You made the right choice, Also consider that the R3610 also as eSata which the R3700 doesn't. As well as using my R3610 as a Media Centre It's also my NAS with a 2TB HD attached to the eSata, It's a great little machine as long as you don't expect to play Crysis on it!

sharingan_sasuk · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:50

I'm thinking of getting the Revo R3700. Lets us know how the R3610 goes as I'm interested in how they perform overall!

Venares · 12 Feb 2011 at 21:19

While I cant vouch for the r3610 in windows, mine has been absoluty fantastic running XBMC-Live for over a year.

chippy08 · 13 Feb 2011 at 00:36

My R3600 has been great since i had it using xbmc but i did add more memory 4gig is better as it makes it run smoother.
my 3 year old even uses it to watch is films thru xbmc.

Schizophonic · 13 Feb 2011 at 11:13

So far so good, not too many problems. Installing windows via USB CD-Rom went smoothly. This thing is so quite. Tried streaming some 1080 content via youtube and it stuttered. I'm installing new drivers now so will restart soon.

Persecuter · 2 Jun 2011 at 22:10

any updates on this at all? thinking of a revo 3610 myself, but been reading about possible probs playing iplayer and some stutter on .mkv's??

zack1uk · 7 Jun 2011 at 22:31

I use a 3610 and can play full 1080P mkv with high def audio. It took a while to get there though you will need either XBMC (standalone as I'm not sure if they have implemented hardware acceleration in the windows version) or MPC-HC player or a software player than can use teh Core-AVC codec as they all do the video processing in the Ion GPU (which is more than fast enough). When I built mine WMC and WMP both used the Atom CPU to process video and that even struggled with 780P.
I use WMC7, with Media Browser skin, and MPC-HC set up as an external player.

Not sure about youtube but the flash 10. update made iplayer work like a dream.
I get HD audio by using the ffdshow tryouts filters to output LPCM to my receiver. The Revo decodes the HD audio into uncompressed multi channel audio (LPCM) which most HDMI receivers will recognize. The only difference is no fancy blue light.

There are a couple of superb forum posts for the revo over on AVforums (look at the computers--.HTPC forum)

Bry · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:53

Quick question. I really want something revo sized for playing 1080p media. But, I don't want to stream I want to play back locally. So does anyone know of anything like a revo that will let me install XBMC and can take one 3.5inch HDD ?

delta9 · 19 Jun 2011 at 13:12

zack1uk said:
I use a 3610 and can play full 1080P mkv with high def audio. It took a while to get there though you will need either XBMC (standalone as I'm not sure if they have implemented hardware acceleration in the windows version) or MPC-HC player or a software player than can use teh Core-AVC codec as they all do the video processing in the Ion GPU (which is more than fast enough). When I built mine WMC and WMP both used the Atom CPU to process video and that even struggled with 780P.
I use WMC7, with Media Browser skin, and MPC-HC set up as an external player.

Not sure about youtube but the flash 10. update made iplayer work like a dream.
I get HD audio by using the ffdshow tryouts filters to output LPCM to my receiver. The Revo decodes the HD audio into uncompressed multi channel audio (LPCM) which most HDMI receivers will recognize. The only difference is no fancy blue light.

There are a couple of superb forum posts for the revo over on AVforums (look at the computers--.HTPC forum)

v helpfull post +1

sedmonds · 20 Jun 2011 at 15:55

zack1uk said:
It took a while to get there though you will need either XBMC (standalone as I'm not sure if they have implemented hardware acceleration in the windows version).

Hi,

Just wanted to mention that I recently purchased the R3700, installed Windows 7 x64, and am running XBMC flawlessly. By default, when its installed it will not switch on hardware acceleration so your videos will stutter, but a quick visit to the XBMC settings fixed that.

Also bought an MCE compatible remote (RC6), and using a handy program which makes it very simple to change the commands:

http://xbmccustomregis.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy!

Methanoid · 23 Jun 2011 at 08:33

Bry said:
Quick question. I really want something revo sized for playing 1080p media. But, I don't want to stream I want to play back locally. So does anyone know of anything like a revo that will let me install XBMC and can take one 3.5inch HDD ?

No such thing that takes 3.5" HDDs. Need a "full" ITX case.

Persecuter · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:52

sedmonds said:
Hi,

Just wanted to mention that I recently purchased the R3700, installed Windows 7 x64, and am running XBMC flawlessly. By default, when its installed it will not switch on hardware acceleration so your videos will stutter, but a quick visit to the XBMC settings fixed that.

Also bought an MCE compatible remote (RC6), and using a handy program which makes it very simple to change the commands:

http://xbmccustomregis.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy!

thanks, very useful, have been looking at the r3700 a little more, since im having trouble locating a reasonably priced used r3610, they seem to go for as much as one of these does new.

Methanoid · 26 Jun 2011 at 12:20

Persecuter said:
thanks, very useful, have been looking at the r3700 a little more, since im having trouble locating a reasonably priced used r3610, they seem to go for as much as one of these does new.

Well if you believe some of the people in Price Check forum they suggest my R3700 is worth £125

so look for a 2nd hand one?

Persecuter · 26 Jun 2011 at 17:05

really? wow. ill defo have a look

pumaz · 2 Jul 2011 at 14:15

Persecuter said:
thanks, very useful, have been looking at the r3700 a little more, since im having trouble locating a reasonably priced used r3610, they seem to go for as much as one of these does new.

If you want to find out the real value of something, search completed listings on eBay and get an average price then minus 15% for fees etc.

Methanoid · 2 Jul 2011 at 14:17

15⅝ for fees is a joke. EBay don't charge that

pumaz · 2 Jul 2011 at 17:47

Methanoid said:
15⅝ for fees is a joke. EBay don't charge that

10% Final Value Fee and 5% for listing and Paypal Fee. Probably not exact but a nice round number.

What is a Joke is when something gets valued at 50% less than you can achieve at auction