millpub wrote: If you can

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December 13, 2011 at 6:54 pm #6654
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    [quote=millpub]

    If you can find the 2390T, that should be a pretty solid HTPC processor. At 35W TDP and 2.7 GHz, with up to 3.5 GHz under turbo, it sips power and still offers plenty of performance, and would probably be my pick if I were building simply because I would like the extra gaming horsepower in my HTPC. If you are transcoding and your software takes advantages for four cores, I would probably hold out for the 2500T. Its four cores are a little slower, but a properly multi-threaded transcoder will definitely benefit.

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    Looks like MacMall has the OEM chip in stock:

    http://www.macmall.com/p/product~dpno~8853067~pdp.gihjgde;jsessionid=552A4E94972865F9CAB435CFAC257DD3?emOmni=null&source=MWBGOOGLEBASE

    I don’t do a terribly large amount of transcoding, but who knows what the future has in store.