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#Best mini pc for htpc 2015 movie#
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It depends on the game, but a few can even be played at 1080p now with medium settings.

#Best mini pc for htpc 2015 720p#

Two generations on, with the HD 530, even recent games like GRID Autosport, Lego Jurassic Park and so on can now be played at 720p with high detail settings at consistently high framerates. 720p was mostly attainable in older games with the HD 4400, but I sometimes had to drop to medium detail settings, or lower. Haswell offered the first reasonable big screen gaming GPU on an Intel CPU, but only just. Skylake's on-board HD 530 graphics is about twice as fast as the HD 4400 that it replaces. A Skylake CPU, with the right OS support, gets up to speed and back to idle faster, resulting in better performance and less overall power draw. Speed Shift hands over CPU clockspeed control to the CPU itself, so it can ramp its internal clock up and down dramatically faster than the OS could. Maybe part of it is the latest Windows 10 update which supports the new Speed Shift technology in Skylake. These are impressive numbers, much better than I expected.

56w Prime95 full CPU load + Rthdribl full GPU load.

40w Lego Batman 3 high detail 720p gameplay.

#Best mini pc for htpc 2015 movie#

13w active standard netflix (720p?) movie playback.

Here's what I measured with my trusty kill-a-watt: The real story is how idle power consumption was reduced another 33 percent. The 6100T I chose is dual-core plus hyperthreading, which I consider the sweet spot, but there are some other Skylake 6000 series variants at the same 35w power envelope which offer true quad-core, or quad-core plus hyperthreading – and, inevitably, a slightly lower base clock rate. About all you can do is slap more cores in there, to very limited benefit in most applications.

The steady march of improvements in my HTPC build over the years lets me look back and see how far the old beige box PC has come in the decade I've been blogging: 2005 ~$1000 512MB RAM, 1 CPU 80wĪs expected, the per-thread performance increase from 2013's Haswell CPU to 2016's Skylake CPU is modest – 20 percent at best, and that might be rounding up. I love this little machine to death it's always been there for me and my family. It's the only always-on workhorse computer in our house, it is utterly silent, totally reliable, sips power, and it's at the center of our home entertainment, networking, storage, and gaming. I've loved many computers in my life, but the HTPC has always had a special place in my heart.