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TurkeyPotPie · 2011-06-14, 11:43

You should be fine with the E5700. I use a couple of old PCs as media players. A Pentium 4 2.8GHz from 2002 with CoreAVC will play 720p videos with softsubs as long as there aren't any crazy karaoke effects. It just barely plays them though (CPU around 90%) so I have to run a really stripped down installation of XP with absolutely no crap running in the background. I also have an old 2.8GHz Pentium D from 2005 (still the same old Netburst architecture as the P4, not Core), and it runs 720p with softsubs just fine (uses up most of one core, but with two cores there's less need to worry about background processes interrupting playback).

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TurkeyPotPie fushigi ojisan Join Date: Jan 2011	You should be fine with the E5700. I use a couple of old PCs as media players. A Pentium 4 2.8GHz from 2002 with CoreAVC will play 720p videos with softsubs as long as there aren't any crazy karaoke effects. It just barely plays them though (CPU around 90%) so I have to run a really stripped down installation of XP with absolutely no crap running in the background. I also have an old 2.8GHz Pentium D from 2005 (still the same old Netburst architecture as the P4, not Core), and it runs 720p with softsubs just fine (uses up most of one core, but with two cores there's less need to worry about background processes interrupting playback).