Asus' J1800I-C Bay Trail Motherboard Spotted

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Asus also joins the Bay Trail J1800 race.

Asus' J1800I-C Bay Trail Motherboard Spotted : Read more

 

[Tomas650]

How would these fare in an htpc build?

 

[ocilfa]

@Tomas650: Not as terrible as some may think. It easily handles 1080p. Being passive, they would work fantastic within the living room.

 

[InvalidError]

How would these fare in an htpc build?

With pretty much all low-end CPUs and tons of low-end SoCs supporting hardware decode these days, there isn't much of a reason left for anything semi-recent to struggle with 1080p/h264 decoding. If you want to do 2160p/h265, that could be a different story.

 

[Tomas650]

How would these fare in an htpc build?

With pretty much all low-end CPUs and tons of low-end SoCs supporting hardware decode these days, there isn't much of a reason left for anything semi-recent to struggle with 1080p/h264 decoding. If you want to do 2160p/h265, that could be a different story.

Would it be also able to support a twitch live stream?

 

[lockhrt999]

How would these fare in an htpc build?

With pretty much all low-end CPUs and tons of low-end SoCs supporting hardware decode these days, there isn't much of a reason left for anything semi-recent to struggle with 1080p/h264 decoding. If you want to do 2160p/h265, that could be a different story.

Are you sure? Most of the celerons don't have hardware decoders or rather they are disabled.If you visit official page of this processor, intel clearly mentions it doesn't support 3d video processing. always build htpc with cheapest A series amd apu. AMD doesn't compromise much.

 

[InvalidError]

If you visit official page of this processor, intel clearly mentions it doesn't support 3d video processing.

All variants I see have HD Graphics and the J1800's page also says it supports QuickSync - the article even quotes the IGP's clock specs.
http://ark.intel.com/products/series/77504/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J1000-Series-for-Desktop

The Atom-based Celerons are supposed to compete against ARM in low-power, low-cost applications. The J1800 would be next to worthless compared to Snapdragon and Exynos if it did not have 3D and video decode acceleration.

 

[lockhrt999]

If you visit official page of this processor, intel clearly mentions it doesn't support 3d video processing.

All variants I see have HD Graphics and the J1800's page also says it supports QuickSync - the article even quotes the IGP's clock specs.
http://ark.intel.com/products/series/77504/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J1000-Series-for-Desktop

The Atom-based Celerons are supposed to compete against ARM in low-power, low-cost applications. The J1800 would be next to worthless compared to Snapdragon and Exynos if it did not have 3D and video decode acceleration.

Quick sync is a hardware encoder not decoder.
Recently I was in the market looking for a cheap celeron / amd E series apu based laptops. None of the celeron had hardware decoders. But these celerons had 35W tdp and could play 1080p vids on software mode. They had only 2.5 hr of battery life with video watching. So I bought E1 based laptop instead. The tdp was only 16W but it had hardware decoder. My laptop has about 6 hours of battery life with video watching.

 

[InvalidError]

Quick sync is a hardware encoder not decoder.

While QuickSync's main claim to fame is encode acceleration, it also does decode.

BTW, Celerons and Pentiums "not supporting" QuickSync was just Intel artificially crippling them by withholding driver support until a week ago.
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/02/24/chip-shot-latest-intel-graphics-drivers-now-support-intel-quick-sync-video-on-pentium-and-celeron-processors

 

[lockhrt999]

Quick sync is a hardware encoder not decoder.

While QuickSync's main claim to fame is encode acceleration, it also does decode.

BTW, Celerons and Pentiums "not supporting" QuickSync was just Intel artificially crippling them by withholding driver support until a week ago.
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/02/24/chip-shot-latest-intel-graphics-drivers-now-support-intel-quick-sync-video-on-pentium-and-celeron-processors

It's great if it can decode too. I had checked for celeron 1000m which I was going to buy. Compared to the celeron from news this was much more powerful but it didn't have either quick sync or Clear HD video.

 

[takeshi7]

I wish Intel would allow PCI-E x16 slots on their low end Bay Trail/Atom boards.

 

[Nada190]

I hate it when they don't give us a date. I'm in the middle of a HTPC build and this is perfect for a discrete sound card and costs less.