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post #1291 of 2220
5/15/11 at 6:35am
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Originally Posted by babgvant View Post

Lucid, or something similar, is required for QS support with a discrete gpu. That said, QS will not accelerate audio encoding.

I know quick synch doesn't accelaerate audio encoding, read my previous post more carefully.

I don't think Lucid is required. I have quicksynch and a discrete GPU with my H67 (using dual monitor in bios), I am surprised that intel changed this for Z68.
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post #1292 of 2220
5/15/11 at 7:08am
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Originally Posted by regal View Post

I know quick synch doesn't accelaerate audio encoding, read my previous post more carefully.

I read it and it's unclear whether your complaint was that encoding audio makes the system slow, or if you expected QS to make that better.

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Originally Posted by regal View Post

I don't think Lucid is required. I have quicksynch and a discrete GPU with my H67 (using dual monitor in bios), I am surprised that intel changed this for Z68.

I did misread that the you are using two monitors; as long as a monitor is connected to the Intel GPU you do not need Lucid. In that respect nothing has changed w/ Z68.
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post #1293 of 2220
5/15/11 at 7:32am
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Originally Posted by babgvant View Post

I read it and it's unclear whether your complaint was that encoding audio makes the system slow, or if you expected QS to make that better.

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With a Z68 you can overclock which would significantly decrease audio encoding time, capish ?
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post #1294 of 2220
5/15/11 at 7:50am
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Originally Posted by regal View Post

I have a biostar TH67+ with an i2500. I use the MB for the monitor and the TV is hooked up to an HD6850. So I have quicksynch.

Is it a "K" model. Audio encoding should be very fast on a quad, even not OC'd. At least it always has been for me. But I'm talking mp3's not sure what your doing.
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post #1295 of 2220
5/15/11 at 8:03am
Audio encoding benchmarks:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/d...udio,2423.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/d...udio,2422.html
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post #1296 of 2220
5/15/11 at 8:29am
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Originally Posted by regal View Post

With a Z68 you can overclock which would significantly decrease audio encoding time, capish ?

"capish"; LOL

Overclocking is "found money"; great when it works, but you shouldn't build your budget around it. An i7 (higher clock and HT for more threads) might give you better guaranteed return on expenditure.
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post #1297 of 2220
5/15/11 at 8:31am
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Originally Posted by ymarker View Post

Audio encoding benchmarks:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/d...udio,2423.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/d...udio,2422.html



Yes and a Q9550 @ 3.6ghz is about the same as my i5-2500 . There out to be a good true 64 bit encoder, I have one setup for EAC rips, but not for flac to Mp3 once its on the HDD. Sort of off topic I apologize.
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post #1298 of 2220
5/15/11 at 8:46am
Is it EFI or not? Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI BIOS explained by Tech Report

Only GIGABYTE still sticks to legacy BIOS for an unknown reason.
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post #1299 of 2220
5/16/11 at 6:09am
I have an Antec ISK 65 mini itx case which comes with a 65w psu. Will I be able to use a 2100T and ASRock H67M-ITX with that small of a psu? The other components are 1 x 2gb stick of ram and a OCZ SSD. No optical drive.
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post #1300 of 2220
5/16/11 at 6:12am
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Originally Posted by wickchucker View Post

I have an Antec ISK 65 mini itx case which comes with a 65w psu. Will I be able to use a 2100T and ASRock H67M-ITX with that small of a psu? The other components are 1 x 2gb stick of ram and a OCZ SSD. No optical drive.

That's going to be cutting it really close. I wouldn't recommend it.
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post #1301 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:58am
Intel To Launch Core i3-2120K Processor

Core i3-2120K is 3.3GHz, 3MB L2 (the same as 2120) with unlocked clock multiplier (Z68/P67 is required, however). Intel HD Graphics 2000. $150. Release time is unknown.
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post #1302 of 2220
5/19/11 at 7:18am
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Originally Posted by renethx View Post
Intel To Launch Core i3-2120K Processor

Core i3-2120K is 3.3GHz, 3MB L2 (the same as 2120) with unlocked clock multiplier (Z68/P67 is required, however). Intel HD Graphics 2000. $150. Release time is unknown.
Its about time. I wonder if these will OC as good as the quads. Will be a beastly little cpu if so, HT?

EDIT, ah no HT, thats dumb.
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post #1303 of 2220
5/19/11 at 7:29am
The original XFASTEST never says no HT.
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post #1304 of 2220
5/19/11 at 7:44am
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Originally Posted by whiteboy714 View Post
Its about time. I wonder if these will OC as good as the quads. Will be a beastly little cpu if so, HT?

EDIT, ah no HT, thats dumb.
Probably targeted towards gamers. Those people don't care about HT. In fact, a lot of them disable HT in order to get higher overclocks. The i3-2120K might actually OC better than quad-core counterparts. We'll see.
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post #1305 of 2220
5/19/11 at 7:53am
I have my bedroom HTPC build put together and the software mostly setup. I'll post some pictures where I get a chance.

Lian-Li PC-Q07
picoPSU 120-WI-32 with 19V 6.3A adapter
i3-2100
ASUS P8H61-I
4GB Kingston ValueRAM
Kingston 64GB V100 SSD
Samsung DVD-RW
Happauge WinTV-HVR-1250
Rosewill RNX-N180UBE USB2.0 Wireless N adapter

Meanwhile, here's some pictures of something I ran into during the build: http://outsidethestb.blogspot.com/20...-mini-itx.html
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post #1306 of 2220
5/19/11 at 8:27am
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post

Probably targeted towards gamers. Those people don't care about HT. In fact, a lot of them disable HT in order to get higher overclocks. The i3-2120K might actually OC better than quad-core counterparts. We'll see.

Nah screw that this thing needs HT, all i3's have HT. I'm sure it will. Hopefully they don't price them too high like the $300 i3-680 dual core. A little higher then $150 and you may as well get the i5.
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post #1307 of 2220
5/19/11 at 8:35am
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Originally Posted by whiteboy714 View Post

Nah screw that this thing needs HT, all i3's have HT. I'm sure it will. Hopefully they don't price them too high like the $300 i3-680 dual core. A little higher then $150 and you may as well get the i5.

Hmm, yeah, I do agree that this will probably have HT. That's one of the things that differentiate the i3's from the Pentium's so I doubt Intel's going to cut it. Just because the specifications don't explicitly state that it has HT doesn't necessarily mean it's not there. Besides, if Intel's gearing this to compete with the quad-core FX-4110 (which I think is probably the case), then it definitely needs HT.
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post #1308 of 2220
5/19/11 at 9:09am
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post

Probably targeted towards gamers. Those people don't care about HT. In fact, a lot of them disable HT in order to get higher overclocks. The i3-2120K might actually OC better than quad-core counterparts. We'll see.

I'm not even a gamer and HT doesn't get me going at all.
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post #1309 of 2220
5/19/11 at 10:56am
Guys,

Need advice/suggestion on Remote Control/Keyboard situation for the HTPC.
Ideally I would like something more then a remote ... something which has a keyboard/trackball so I can operate Windows too. The only decent one that I could spot so far is the Lenovo 57Y6336 ... but I'm wondering if it's way too small. I was hoping for something that is somewhere in between this Lenovo & a regular keyboard/mouse in terms of size.

Aside from Keyboard/Mouse ... what are you guys using for a Remote that works well with Windows 7/Windows Media Center?

Thanks!!!
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post #1310 of 2220
5/19/11 at 11:06am
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Originally Posted by mickey79 View Post

Guys,

Need advice/suggestion on Remote Control/Keyboard situation for the HTPC.
Ideally I would like something more then a remote ... something which has a keyboard/trackball so I can operate Windows too. The only decent one that I could spot so far is the Lenovo 57Y6336 ... but I'm wondering if it's way too small. I was hoping for something that is somewhere in between this Lenovo & a regular keyboard/mouse in terms of size.

Aside from Keyboard/Mouse ... what are you guys using for a Remote that works well with Windows 7/Windows Media Center?

Thanks!!!

I have a "family approved" RF remote like this one for my family to navigate the Media Center to watch Live and Recorded TV and DVD/BD via TMT5 inside Media Center.

I also have a small RF keyboard side by side and help me everything else. I have not try the Leonvo one but I tried the Logitech diNovo Mini and it works well for the remote functionality but difficult for me to substitute the keyboard, due to the size. So I ended up splitting to 2 devices.
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post #1311 of 2220
5/19/11 at 11:20am
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Originally Posted by mickey79 View Post

Guys,

Need advice/suggestion on Remote Control/Keyboard situation for the HTPC.
Ideally I would like something more then a remote ... something which has a keyboard/trackball so I can operate Windows too. The only decent one that I could spot so far is the Lenovo 57Y6336 ... but I'm wondering if it's way too small. I was hoping for something that is somewhere in between this Lenovo & a regular keyboard/mouse in terms of size.

Aside from Keyboard/Mouse ... what are you guys using for a Remote that works well with Windows 7/Windows Media Center?

Thanks!!!

There are/were several keyboard threads here (we should make a sticky) like this one: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1321663 with lots of suggestions in it.

I think there's a remote thread around here too which we should also make a sticky.

We have these great long threads discussing hardware and then they fall off the edge of the forum.
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post #1312 of 2220
5/19/11 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by hlkc View Post

I have a "family approved" RF remote like this one for my family to navigate the Media Center to watch Live and Recorded TV and DVD/BD via TMT5 inside Media Center.

I also have a small RF keyboard side by side and help me everything else. I have not try the Leonvo one but I tried the Logitech diNovo Mini and it works well for the remote functionality but difficult for me to substitute the keyboard, due to the size. So I ended up splitting to 2 devices.

I really like that Logitech DiNovo Mini - I had never seen that one before. It's a bit on the expensive side though. I wasn't prepared to spend that much. Definitely beats the crap out of Lenovo!! It's pretty much what I was looking for.

Is there something else like that - lower in price range?

I might have to end up with a remote control + regular wireless keyboard/mouse (USB) for seperate operations. Something like your setup.
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post #1313 of 2220
5/19/11 at 12:09pm
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Originally Posted by StardogChampion View Post

There are/were several keyboard threads here (we should make a sticky) like this one: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1321663 with lots of suggestions in it.

I think there's a remote thread around here too which we should also make a sticky.

We have these great long threads discussing hardware and then they fall off the edge of the forum.

This thread should definitely be a sticky!!! It's a treasure trove of keyboard/mouse/remote solutions for an HTPC. I second this!!
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post #1314 of 2220
5/19/11 at 3:58pm
Are there any Mini-ITX z68 mobos on the horizon?
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post #1315 of 2220
5/19/11 at 4:11pm
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Originally Posted by jwdaigle View Post

Are there any Mini-ITX z68 mobos on the horizon?

I am waiting this as my bedroom HTPC platform.
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post #1316 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:10pm
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Originally Posted by hlkc View Post

I am waiting this as my bedroom HTPC platform.

None of those look like Mini-ITX to me...
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post #1317 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:38pm
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post

None of those look like Mini-ITX to me...

I've been scouring the last few days for Mini-ITX info.

So far Giga has said they are doing a Z68 but no other details.

And Zotac has one in the works.

I am certain there will be others as well but that is all I could find on ITX news.
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post #1318 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:44pm
For what purpose people in this forum want a mini-ITX Z68 mb? A gaming HTPC like this? Or a SFF encoding machine? Just out of curiosity.
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post #1319 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by renethx View Post

For what purpose people in this forum want a mini-ITX Z68 mb? A gaming HTPC like this? Or a SFF encoding machine? Just out of curiosity.

I think people mainly just want the "latest and greatest".

I agree though that for most the H67/H61 would be more than adequate.
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post #1320 of 2220
5/19/11 at 6:50pm
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Originally Posted by renethx View Post

For what purpose people in this forum want a mini-ITX Z68 mb? A gaming HTPC like this? Just out of curiosity.

Actually, my goal is more like this, but it's for my workstation/gaming desktop, not the HTPC. PCSX2 needs powerful processors more than it does powerful GPU's.

All my new builds are Mini-ITX now. With space inside the apartment being a premium, it's really invaluable having a tiny PC.
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