Soldato
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- 5 Dec 2010
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Currently building a tiny PC to attach to the VESA mount on the back of my monitor for linux/other fun tinkering and messing around that I do not want to do on my main PC.
Thing is I can't decide what to throw in it. It would be nice to have it fairly fast as there is nothing worse than going from a nice fast gaming PC to some slow crock and getting frustrated with everything. Graphics need to be decent enough for maybe a little light gaming (Q3, CSS the usual LAN stuff incase I throw it in a bag to take to a mates) and also for 1080 playback/streaming in case I move out before I get my hands on an RPi/I find more interesting things to do with said RPi.
I have narrowed it down to three choices:
AMD E-450
AMD A series (any of them look good but specifically the 65W chips, the A8-3800 would be lovely but methinks it may get a bit hot/very hot.)
Intel i3-2105
The reason for the E450 being there along with the A series APUs is it would be nice to keep it low power and, where possible, passively cooled. If I have to drop some CPU power for that then so be it but at the same time I don't want to drop the CPU power so low that it becomes sluggish when loaded etc.
So what would you recommend me as a PC with decent enough graphics but low power that isnt so low that I get annoyed with it?
Thing is I can't decide what to throw in it. It would be nice to have it fairly fast as there is nothing worse than going from a nice fast gaming PC to some slow crock and getting frustrated with everything. Graphics need to be decent enough for maybe a little light gaming (Q3, CSS the usual LAN stuff incase I throw it in a bag to take to a mates) and also for 1080 playback/streaming in case I move out before I get my hands on an RPi/I find more interesting things to do with said RPi.
I have narrowed it down to three choices:
AMD E-450
AMD A series (any of them look good but specifically the 65W chips, the A8-3800 would be lovely but methinks it may get a bit hot/very hot.)
Intel i3-2105
The reason for the E450 being there along with the A series APUs is it would be nice to keep it low power and, where possible, passively cooled. If I have to drop some CPU power for that then so be it but at the same time I don't want to drop the CPU power so low that it becomes sluggish when loaded etc.
So what would you recommend me as a PC with decent enough graphics but low power that isnt so low that I get annoyed with it?