[mythtvnz] Intel DC3217IYE Desktop Computer - I3

[Hadley Rich]

On 22/07/13 12:52, Mark George wrote:
>   - These things have cooling issues - they just made them too small, and only have a CPU cooler.  Given the cramped space if you combine the SSD with a WiFi card the SSD overheats and drops offline whenever you are making heavy use of both which is not ideal.  A recent BIOS update cranks the CPU fan up a bit to try to deal with the heat, and so far I haven't had any further problems.  It will be interesting to see what will happen on a hot day.

I use the Black version and haven't had any cooling issues at all. It 
runs warm but very stable.

>   - VAAPI is still immature.  It has one functional deinterlacer (linear blend), and struggles with smooth playback, dropping frames regularly.  I switched to using CPU decoding rather than hardware because it results in smoother playback but it is still not perfect.  A lot of work has been going into the Intel graphics drivers in recent kernels so hopefully these problems will be fixed soon.

I run XBMC/OpenELEC rather than MythTV/Ubuntu, have had no problems 
playing back any files.

hads
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