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Kdar
February 17th, 2010, 06:41 PM
I am thinking about building HTPC.. and was looking at i3 CPU and 1156 socket motherboard. That motherboard have Intel H55 build-in.

Anyone know if this work ok under Ubuntu/Linux?

Does anyone have hardware with Intel H55?

HappyFeet
February 17th, 2010, 06:53 PM
Why do you need an overpriced cpu for a home theatre setup? You can get a fast AMD quad core for half the price.

Psumi
February 17th, 2010, 07:26 PM
As with HappyFeet, but I google searched this before, and I was surprised that no one has tried it with linux on the major linux communities such as linuxquestions, fedoraforum, etc.

Most results are about linux/ubuntu with other hardware because google searches a whole page for the terms.

Kdar
February 17th, 2010, 08:25 PM
mm yes. maybe I should pass on that.

Initially I was thinking about getting something like this, AMD with ATI on-board video card:

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G (with onboard video ATI HD 4200)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394

and

AMD Athlon II X2 240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103688

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But then, I am a bit worried about HD 4200 on Linux.. and I started to look at this set up:

Intel/Nvidia-on-board

XFX MI93007 AS9 LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813141015

and

Intel Pentium E5300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116074&cm_re=e5300-_-19-116-074-_-Product

cariboo
February 17th, 2010, 08:34 PM
You don't need a lot of computing power for a HTPC. I'm using an Atom 320 with 1Gb ram. Running XBMC on top of LXDE. I'm very happy with the performance, and everything just works, even with the Intel 945 graphics chipset.

Don't pay to much attention to HappyFeet's sig. :)

Kdar
February 17th, 2010, 09:16 PM
You don't need a lot of computing power for a HTPC. I'm using an Atom 320 with 1Gb ram. Running XBMC on top of LXDE. I'm very happy with the performance, and everything just works, even with the Intel 945 graphics chipset.

Don't pay to much attention to HappyFeet's sig. :)

So you have mini-ITX board?

chrisi99
February 21st, 2010, 04:37 PM
with the .33 kernel it does... with the standard kernel it produces freezes in gnome all the time!