I built a system very much

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July 19, 2011 at 10:38 pm #4903
jrandeck
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    I built a system very much like that in the OP a couple of years ago.  I used a Zotac GF9300-D-E mini-ITX motherboard and a Celeron 450 Conroe-L CPU.

    It worked pretty well for most HTPC tasks.  I don’t recall how well Netflix streaming did on it, but I know I had issues with Blu-Ray playback stuttering on several disks which disappointed me enough that the system saw little use.  Maybe the problem was the OEM version of Power DVD 8, but I expected decent hardware acceleration with the 9300 GPU.

    If I had to do it again today, I would definitely go with something newer.  The Sandy Bridge system that was recommended will produce a much better experience for not much more money than the Celeron system.