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Llano A8 for www and blurays?

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A quick one...
am thinking about building a small PC that could stream movies from my main machine to TV and at same time be able to play blurays.
Am pretty sure Llano A8 will be capable of doing all that and with FM1 micro motherboards I should be able to fit everything in nice small case.
Just wanted to ask if anyone here has/had Llano A8 ? and has any experience with it.

and as always, am open to suggestions.
Thanks
 
To be honest I've been looking at these too. I was contemplating going the Sandy/Ivy i5 route in my upgrade from my Intel E2200 system but looking at the costs has led me to consider Llano. I'm not an Intel or AMD cheerleader and have had both in the past.

Unfortunately there's not too much info on the OCUK boards but what I've seen in reviews online for everyday web-browsing, bluray/mkv playback, etc. they appear to perform fine. And the onboard graphics seem a decent boost from my Radeon 4870 Graphics card. Also the K version seems to be easy to clock without much effort.
 
Keep in mind that they will be replaced with Trinity in a month or so on a completely different socket. Trinity has a even more powerful gpu and a better cpu too.
 
pastymuncher said:
Keep in mind that they will be replaced with Trinity in a month or so on a completely different socket. Trinity has a even more powerful gpu and a better cpu too.
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didnt knew that,
thanks for info.

In a small case that should make a decent box for streaming movies from main machine etc
 
Brazos would probably manage that if you offload to the GPU, but the 17w trinity seems like it'll be hitting a sweet spot. I'd wait the month, either way.
 
bastic said:
what about simple gaming ?
world of tanks maybe ?
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I dunno about gaming, but the A4 3300 is more than powerful for Blu-Ray playback, I've used Zacate and Ion in the past and neither could manage HD iPlayer smoothly, the 3300 easily copes with that as well.
 
Jokester said:
I dunno about gaming, but the A4 3300 is more than powerful for Blu-Ray playback, I've used Zacate and Ion in the past and neither could manage HD iPlayer smoothly, the 3300 easily copes with that as well.
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Thanks.
Will for more reviews and make a decision.
 
Jokester said:
I dunno about gaming, but the A4 3300 is more than powerful for Blu-Ray playback, I've used Zacate and Ion in the past and neither could manage HD iPlayer smoothly, the 3300 easily copes with that as well.
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Yep any online streaming that is flash based doesnt take advantage of the gpu acceleration and the cpu in brazos isn't powerful enough on its own. E-350 is fine for blu-ray playback, and x264's and mkv's etc using media player xmbc etc or but useless for encoding or ripping dvd's,
The Llano is a nice chip but as people have said wait for trinity it's gonna be awesome.
 
Davedree said:
Yep any online streaming that is flash based doesnt take advantage of the gpu acceleration and the cpu in brazos isn't powerful enough on its own. E-350 is fine for blu-ray playback, and x264's and mkv's etc using media player xmbc etc or but useless for encoding or ripping dvd's,
The Llano is a nice chip but as people have said wait for trinity it's gonna be awesome.
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This. Question depends on whether you can use the hardware acceleration.

Since gaming has been added to the mix, I'd still say wait for trinity, but maybe a higher end trinity.
 
I wouldn't have anything lower than an A8; If you want to play a few games it does ok but I was thinking of adding additional low profile card for crossfire on mine to give it a bit of a kick. Whole system uses 50W sat on desktop and is very good.

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