Revo 3700 as a Media PC

K@rl · 2 Aug 2011 at 17:29

Ended up getting an emachines er1401 nettop from a competitor for only £130.

Its the AMD Athlon Dual Core K325, 2GB DDR3 ram / 250GB HD & Nvidia GF9200. Its running W7 Ult @ 720, XBMC and VMware server 2 with a W2K3 server.

All running sweet as a nut and using between 20-30 watts. That's a massive energy saving over my design rig. (tested with a plugin power adapter thingy with a watts readout).

Just need to order a Windows Media Center Remote & IR sensor and I'm done.

Venares · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:37

Methanoid said:
Does anyone actually KNOW the power consumption of this box, rather than posts above that suggest its very little?

Meth, just took some readings of my 3610 with a kilowatt.

Idle with XBMC = 25w
Playing a 1080p movie = 25w

Why no change, simple when you understand how XBMC works.
It constantly draws 60fps on the screen so the load @ idle is no differnt than playing a movie.

Still I think 25w is pretty good

That should drop considirably when the next version is released with the new renderer though.

saitrix · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:42

Venares,

That situation with the menu's in XBMC should hopefully be sorted with Eden! Will be good for the people who keep them always on.

K@rl · 3 Aug 2011 at 09:49

Venares said:
Why no change, simple when you understand how XBMC works.
It constantly draws 60fps on the screen so the load @ idle is no differnt than playing a movie.

I did wonder about that - seemed strange to me.

Look forward to it being changed - could save me quite a bit more in electricities.

Whilst we are on the subject, any news of a Lovefilm plugin on the horizon? That would make it the perfect box.