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RE: Please suggest hardware for my 2nd CMP (sorry for the extra posts..I think I hit reload too many times)


I recognize I'll have to make sacrifices to play music and movies with one system as I have before.

Are there specific bios options that I should not change?
I've already bought a i3-530 but will a fanless cpu heat sink be okay for video without configuring the voltage or clock speed with the bios and cpu-z? IS it an issue of temperature, or just that the processor without a video card isn't sufficient to handle HD video. Intel's site talks about this Intel® HD Graphics 3000 for the processor, but I'd hate to be mislead by the term "HD" if it really can't put out 1080 without dropping frames without a video card too.

I had Pentium D Processor 820 2.8GHz and used a fanless video card & rme digi96. The dell bios wouldn't let me change too much, so no voltage or clock speed mods..just the multitude of xp/minlogon/registry..etc tweaks and some power supply tweaks. The processor fan was real loud, but the cmp sounded wonderful so other than the processor doing everything, so I'm sure there are certain settings I just wouldn't want to touch..right?


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