A couple of years back when agglomerating bit for my media centre I bought an old 1155 CPU/mobo combo at a knock down price. It's an old i3 3220 (Hyperthreaded Dual Core) & a cheapo h61 motherboard, and after I popped an old 7950 in there 'twas all I needed at the time as the media centre was for light gaming and streaming/watching shizzle only.
I've just got a bigass 65" 4K tv though and as soon as I try to put 4k content on it (mainly youtube/netflix at the moment) CPU usage pops up to 100% and the video chugs like my old housemate attempting the Yard of Ale challenge.
with 1155 as a socket so damn old my options are pretty limited, is there any scope for putting in a more meaty CPU or should I just retire the damn thing and get a modern I3 cpu/mobo or similar?
I've just got a bigass 65" 4K tv though and as soon as I try to put 4k content on it (mainly youtube/netflix at the moment) CPU usage pops up to 100% and the video chugs like my old housemate attempting the Yard of Ale challenge.
with 1155 as a socket so damn old my options are pretty limited, is there any scope for putting in a more meaty CPU or should I just retire the damn thing and get a modern I3 cpu/mobo or similar?