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[raider]

Hi all,

I have been running a 2.5 year old AMD A6-5400K HTPC until last week when a freak lightning storm kill my modem, my TV and HTPC together. Initially I thought only the motherboard was fried so I purchase a new Gigabyte F2-A78M-HD2 motherboard which is FM2+ but upon dropping the mobo into the htpc, I realize the damage extends to the CPU itself as well.

And since I already bought the FM2+ motherboard, I am hoping to stay the AMD route for now. And since this is a new build after 2.5 years, I would like to have better MadVR performance. Previously on A6-5400K, I can only do upscaling up to Jinc 3 AR. I am hoping to achieve better this time.

So I am thinking....

1. if the new AMD A10-7800 cpu (TDP 65w) (AUD $175) is capable of getting good MadVR performance or

2. If getting a lower end AMD cpu such as A6-6420K (AUD $72) + a discrete GPU card such as the GTX750 (AUD $159) is a better option?

I am going to get a new case as well and the case I am looking at is the Silverstone ML04B.

Appreciate some help.

Thanks

[Krazykanuck]

That case will only take a half-height card.
I just built a system with the case.
I went with a passively cooled GT630 half height card.

Sorry can't help with MadVR still learning myself.

[Manfred]

Hi,
You find some information here:
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/940972-guide-building-htpc-workstation-server-644.html

Encoding/transcoding
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/940972-guide-building-htpc-workstation-server-643.html

By  the way I have an MSI Z87M Gaming, i7-4770T, 8GB Memory - Corsair CML8GX3M2A1600C9,Case: Fractal Design Node 605 with:

MSI 750 TI TF Gaming (HTPC)
MSI R9 270X ITX Gaming (Office PC – was planned the other way round)

I have mostly all type of films and video with many of it interlaced.
I run the 750 TI with Chroma Up-scaling: Jinc 3 taps+ AR, Image Up-scaling: Jinc 3 taps +AR and Image Downscaling: CR+AR+LL.
The R9 270X is capable to run Image Doubling with 16 or either 32 Neurons and Error Diffusion (I have not tested it with all type of film and video material I have)

The 750 TI is practically inaudible, so I use it in my HTPC. The R9270 X ITX you can hear from 3m dsitance, so I placed it in my office PC.

Advantage of Nvidia is, that if you enable hardware transcoding support in JRiver, the 750TI will do the encoding/transcoding, leading to always <=10% CPU utilization regardless of the type of film or video material playing. This is not the case with the R9270 x putting sometimes up to 30% workload on my i7. NVIDIA has problems (much more GPU and CPU Workload required) with functions requiring Open CL support like error diffusion.

I also though about the A10 APU but from my experience now- if you are not into gaming - even an i3 with 35W TDP + 750TI can do the job which much more GPU power compared to the A10 APU but with a higher price.

[raider]

Thanks for that info.

I have just read that the AMD A10-7800 can cross fire with a low end card such as the R7 240 (which is available low profile and fanless).

Anyone know if the AMD A10-7800 + a discrete R7 240 in cross fire mode will give good MadVR performance better than Jinc 3 AR?

I don't think I can return the Gigabyte FM2+ motherboard and as such it seems that I am pretty much stuck on this platform...unless there are compelling reasons for me to absorb the loss and move to the i3 or i5 platform?

In Oz, the i3-4160 cost AUD $148 and the cheapest i5-4460 is AUD $239 and I would imagine the iGPU that are on the intel won't give good MadVR without adding another discrete GPU?

Any thoughts?