[mythtvnz] Intel DC3217IYE Desktop Computer - I3

[Mark George]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:32:23 +1200
Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 22/07/13 13:10, Mark George wrote:
> > Do you have the WiFi card in there too?  A lot of the cooling
> > problems seems be caused the WiFi card being jammed practically
> > hard against the SSD.  I bought the wrong version - I wouldn't need
> > the WiFi if I had an ethernet port, and probably wouldn't have as
> > much trouble with cooling.
> 
> There is a WiFi card in one of them but it's not in use.
> 
> They don't inherently have cooling issues, at least not the black i3 
> version. The grey Celeron version seems okay too.
> 
> > Are you definitely using VAAPI for the decoding?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> hads


Thanks.  The more I read about the cooling issues the more it seems that only the red thunderbolt versions are affected.  I will have to try XBMC to see if I can get smoother playback there.

Cheers,
Mark