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HTPC i3 vs i5 for Blu-ray playback

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I've done a bunch of research and asked a previous question on i3 vs i5 and I was told to go with i3. However, after looking at cyberlinks site, I noticed that they would recommend me to go for a i5 for true theater hd playback. I'm wondering:

 

1. Is this a good blu ray playback software?

2. If so, is it worth to go for an i5 just for the true theater hd stuff?

 

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Keren Chandran

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i3 and i5 are overkill for blu ray playback

 

the pentium g3258 is more than enough even at stock clocks

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i3 and i5 are overkill for blu ray playback

 

the pentium g3258 is more than enough even at stock clocks

 

Then get a Celeron which is the same thing.

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i3 and i5 are overkill for blu ray playback

 

the pentium g3258 is more than enough even at stock clocks

 

I forgot to mention that this pc will be used to watch youtube videos and surf the web. I prefer not to go that low as I have an old dual core pentium which is driving me insane as it occasionally freezes. I feel more comfortable going for a quad core however people were advising me that a dual core will suffice.

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I forgot to mention that this pc will be used to watch youtube videos and surf the web. I prefer not to go that low as I have an old dual core pentium which is driving me insane as it occasionally freezes. I feel more comfortable going for a quad core however people were advising me that a dual core will suffice.

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I forgot to mention that this pc will be used to watch youtube videos and surf the web. I prefer not to go that low as I have an old dual core pentium which is driving me insane as it occasionally freezes. I feel more comfortable going for a quad core however people were advising me that a dual core will suffice.

 I run a g3258 in my media server. I use to have an i5 in there but it was overkill. Mind you I dont game on this machine. It is used for large file newserver  downloads, youtubes, netflix surfin etc. even if i extract a large rar file while using quickpar to repair an archive have my download client open and watch youtube @1080p it doesnt even flinch cpu max's out at around 50% usage under that type of scenario

 

the celeron is the same minus 1mb L3 cache, but I like to overclock even if its stock cooling.

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For just youtube and blu ray playback @ 1080p you could go with a dirt cheap AM1 Kabini build. 

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Use an SSD as a primary drive and the slowness of even piece of crap dualcore systems really turn around into speedy machines.

SSD's are great for everything staying super responsive, even with lower end CPU power.

 

You don't need much CPU power to drive what your doing because now it's a GPU decoding system that takes care of all that video work these days.

Onboard GPU's have encoder/decoders in place to do it all in realtime, Intels iGPU series is ample for 1080p decoding.

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I forgot to mention that this pc will be used to watch youtube videos and surf the web. I prefer not to go that low as I have an old dual core pentium which is driving me insane as it occasionally freezes. I feel more comfortable going for a quad core however people were advising me that a dual core will suffice.

I'm guessing that you had a first or second gen dual core which were one of the worst. IPC improved a lot since then and just one core from a haswell cpu will beat those dual cores like nothing.

 

A celeron or a pentium will be enough for your needs.

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Blu ray playback on PC is fucking horrendous.

 

Cyberlink has a monopoly on it for one thing, but even then my sister ran into issues where depending on what sort of DRM the bluray manufacturer used it still couldn't work with the software.

 

I really can't recommend just using a ps3 or actual bluray player instead.  The DRM nonsense on the PC players ruins the experience.

 

The i3 would be more than enough though.

 

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