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Intel E6750?

post #1 of 5
7/6/07 at 5:19pm
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With a big cost reduction coming later on this month I am looking at the E6750 for my rebuilt HTPC.

Is this a good choice or are some of the other Intel processors better? I am not concerned about overclocking (do not know how).
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post #2 of 5
7/6/07 at 6:10pm
Very nice processor; I have its older brother, the E6700, and am thrilled with performance. Yours should be a bit better since it will run at 1333 FSB instead of 1067. It will run the highest bitrate 1080p Blu-ray AVC without flinching and without hardware acceleration; IMO it sits at the cusp of "plenty of power" and "overkill" for home theater. There are some HTPC applications where the E68x0 or a quad-core will perform better (encoding/transcoding), but for playback and other normal use it runs cool, quiet, and relatively cheap.
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post #3 of 5
7/6/07 at 6:16pm
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Thanks for the response. I have finally nailed down the first piece of my upgraded HTPC. Now I have to build around this with a motherboard next and then the memory.

By "overkill for HTPC" will it work for some gaming?
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post #4 of 5
7/6/07 at 6:20pm
It will work great for gaming. It's just not going to win the contest, because there's the E68x0 and the Q-series that beat it. Although when you get to that level, your graphics card is generally the limiter.
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post #5 of 5
7/6/07 at 6:31pm
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The small amount of gaming I will be doing I do not need the faster ones. The graphic card is another item I am researching.
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