On 22-07-13 12:23, David Hubbard wrote:
Hi Oliver,
Ouch, those are pretty big numbers. I was acking towards the Asus F2A85 aswell but will probably look at a very power efficient APU variant. Don't they come in 65W TDP's? Granted these tdp's are including a GPU.Keep in mind I'm measuring at the wall. TDP is the rating just for the CPU. For example, disabling AHCI by not loading the AHCI module drops the total power by 2W. I tried everything I could think of to see how low I could get the power but couldn't get below 33W for idle.
I've gotten used to my raspberry pi's power draw of 3.3W for idle :p
While ARM is much nicer on many fronts, opensource video decoding isn't one of them (YET, I am involved with linux-sunxi where that might be a reality sooner rather then later).
I'm also leaning towards an external video card, due to the shared memory thing. Then again, it doesn't do a whole lot of heavy lifting so that shouldn't really be an issue.Even a low-end AMD APU should have no problem performing as an HTPC. What would you use it for that would need the dedicated memory bandwidth?
It would serve two functions, Mediaplayback, and the occasional (emulated) game. While I agree, they aren't very memory bandwith greedy, 3D GPU stuffs might want faster memory then.
Regards, David
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Oliver Schinagl