All,
Unfortunately my i5-2500T / Nvidia GTX 660 2GB DDR5 HTPC system died. I'm now searching for a replacement.
The system was connected to my TV screen (1920x1080) and mainly used for watching netflix, play music and some occasional gaming. WII super mariokart is my favorite game :-)
I have always been running Linux, first Gentoo, later Fedora. The performance was just ok, far from a steady 60fps, but usually (depending on the build version and settings) playable with two players. I ran it at 2x native resolution and some minor graphic enhancements. I have the impression that the CPU was the bottleneck, the GPU could do this easily. I would like to improve the performance because it was always a bit of a struggle to get it at a playable rate.
Now looking at the replacement, I would really like to have a small device like/similar to the Intel NUC. E.g. an Asus VivoMini, Acer Revo Cube or Fujitsu Esprimo.
Compared to the i5-2500T (launched in Q1 2011) and DDR3 memory, I expect a big difference here, no matter which recent i5 cpu I choose. Now I have some questions for which I can't find recent data / experiences from others:
Unfortunately my i5-2500T / Nvidia GTX 660 2GB DDR5 HTPC system died. I'm now searching for a replacement.
The system was connected to my TV screen (1920x1080) and mainly used for watching netflix, play music and some occasional gaming. WII super mariokart is my favorite game :-)
I have always been running Linux, first Gentoo, later Fedora. The performance was just ok, far from a steady 60fps, but usually (depending on the build version and settings) playable with two players. I ran it at 2x native resolution and some minor graphic enhancements. I have the impression that the CPU was the bottleneck, the GPU could do this easily. I would like to improve the performance because it was always a bit of a struggle to get it at a playable rate.
Now looking at the replacement, I would really like to have a small device like/similar to the Intel NUC. E.g. an Asus VivoMini, Acer Revo Cube or Fujitsu Esprimo.
Compared to the i5-2500T (launched in Q1 2011) and DDR3 memory, I expect a big difference here, no matter which recent i5 cpu I choose. Now I have some questions for which I can't find recent data / experiences from others:
- Can I safely choose a mobile or low power version of the i5 or only look after desktop versions?
- Are integrated graphics powerful enough? Will I notice a difference between a 620/630/iris integrated graphics?
- When using integrated graphics, will dolphin gain much performance improvements (from unplayable to playable) when using Windows compared to Linux? (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=win10-linux-glcoffee&num=3 seems to indicate that there is no huge difference)