Considering XBMC can offload

[Ogi]

Considering XBMC can offload the video decoding to the graphics card, I don’t think I will have a need for the i5 anytime soon.  The most recent issue I’ve had is with network transfer speeds from my WHS box.  I’m getting around 30MB/s, and I should be getting closer to 80-90MB/s … but I’ll have to look into that at another time.

 

I was thinking it’s funny how with all the time we’ve spent playing hoops, we never talked about interests outside of basketball haha.  

 

I’ll look at that board.  I also need to evaluate some smaller SSDs that I can run XBMC off of (I hope to get a sub 10 second boot up time on this box, and using a minimal ubuntu (other linux distro) with a SSD, I think it’s a reasonable goal).