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 Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:00 pm Post subject: AMD Llano HTPC Builders Guide |
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Home Theater PCs (HTPCs) are becoming more and more popular due to a number of reasons. The desire of consumers to watch and enjoy their media (be it Blu-rays / DVDs or broadcast content) in an independent manner (i.e, not tied down by DRM restrictions such as the Tivo recordings or even just optical media) has enabled the HTPC industry to gain a lot of relevance (as opposed to getting tied down with non-upgradeable consumer electronics equipment).</p>
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All the three major vendors (Intel, AMD and NVIDIA) pay quite a bit of attention to the HTPC market in their products. It is universally agreed that AMD presents some of the most economical HTPC building blocks targeted towards budget system builders. It has been almost a year since the Llano lineup was launched. By integrating a CPU and GPU into the same die (and bringing along AMD's expertise in the GPU arena for HTPCs), these APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) offer a lot to the budget HTPC builders.</p>
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In today's piece, we will be taking a look at how to build a HTPC system using the Llano platform. Options based on various form factors, performance and cost will be analyzed. Note that the Llano processors might not be the latest and greatest, but, when it comes to pricing, it is going to be quite difficult to beat till the desktop variants of Trinity come around. We will also assume that you are aware of the technical merits of the Llano APU lineup, because we will not be covering any benchmarks or doing any comparative study across products from other companies.</p>
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Source: AnandTech
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