pentium G3420 video performance

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It's great for simple home use. I bought a similar config (3.0Ghz Ivy) for a spare web browser to go along side my gaming rig.

Dell offers one in a slim case "Inspirion 3000" with 500GB drive, 4GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet and Win8.1 for $299. You can catch them on sale for as low as $279.

As far as DVD playback goes, all modern processors have a hardware decoder for that so it is not CPU intensive anymore.

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everyone goes with a-10... a-10 is a gaming budget apu, it has 4 cores and runs bloody hot... furthermore I see no mobos with mini itx with FM2 sockets... thats why I ask specific questions...
 

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A pentium G is not going to do what you are looking for. Why pay for inferior performance? Your money or not, that is just silly. When I build for someone, I get the fastest I can for their money, period. Anything less is cheating the person. For 1080p playback and any kind of multitasking, an A8 or A10 are the best options for an all in one solution.
 

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My 6800k with a Cooler Master TX3 idles @ around 30-33c and and VERY rarely exceeds 70c at full load.

There are many miniITX fm2/fm2+ motherboards out there, and the fm2/fm2+ motherboards are very feature rich. The A10-6790k is a very good deal as stated by logainofhades.
 

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It's great for simple home use. I bought a similar config (3.0Ghz Ivy) for a spare web browser to go along side my gaming rig.

Dell offers one in a slim case "Inspirion 3000" with 500GB drive, 4GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet and Win8.1 for $299. You can catch them on sale for as low as $279.

As far as DVD playback goes, all modern processors have a hardware decoder for that so it is not CPU intensive anymore.
 
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ok, I have seen a guy that has a celeron 1000m on a laptop, thats ivy bridge 1.8ghz.... the first thing I saw when I entered the room is that he was playing dota 2 on lowest setting ofc, but with medium textures I think... he has no lag whatsoever, only slight dragging sometimes, probably due to low clock speeds... he plays 1080p video and dvd no problem what so ever... and thats a celeron on a frieking LAPTOP...

the g3420 is haswell meaning better graphics, its almost twise the speed and it will have a desktop size fan... so it seems you, as well as I was in the beginning, didnt knew anything about celerons and pentiums to begin with, and yet you continued acknowledging that a-10... and you said that "anything else is cheating a person"... well I fail to see how a person that doesnt play games would utilize 4 cores for documents and browsing internet, clocked at aprox. 4ghz with powerful graphics... and saying you cant play games on it is an understatement, not all games are resource dependant and it doesnt mean that a game should be right from 2013.

ofcaurse the price difference between g3420 and a-10 seems almost nothing... but that's compared to your salaries in USA, adding to the fact that main IT components(cpu, gpu, ram, hdd) has about 30% bigger price, due to shipping across the ocean... that is why with our salaries and prices, the difference in prices between a-10 and g4320 is noticable... I know a-10 is dirt cheap, like buying lunch 2 times, but we dont have the luxury here of going to restaurants often...

that is why ppl ask specific questions, to get specific awnsers... imagine the drag of writing the backstory to every topic... you did try to help I see that... but you're stubburness on awnsers that work for you just seems wrong.
 

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The stubborn one here has been you. You have refused to consider anything but what you asked about. It is apparent that you already had the answer you wanted already, so why ask to begin with? I have heard others complain of 1080p not doing well with intel IGP. Others have complained of the Pentium not being very good when trying to do any kind of multitasking while playing something be it a game or video. Intel's IGP has always been inferior to AMD's. To be honest, even an A6-6400k would be better since the IGP doesn't have to work the CPU side as hard to do video. If you insist on the Pentium G, at least pair it with an HD 5450 to handle your video.

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CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (€54.70 @ Pixmania DE)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (€96.76 @ Hardwareversand)
Total: €151.46
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-18 23:35 CET+0100)
 

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I know from experience that Intel HD 2000 graphics struggles a lot with HD playback duties. HD 2500 was barely better. I know that HD 4000 or greater DOES handle all HD playback pretty well. Not sure about HD 3000, and I'm not sure about Haswell Pentium's "HD graphics".

I doubt the g3420's "HD graphics" is equal to HD 4000 or better. We know Intel still purposely disables it's capabilities.

I almost built an HTPC with a g3220, but I couldn't trust it's HD playback capabilities so I ended up getting an A6 instead.
 

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I wanted to consider based on answers... your answer started with "I would go with"... followed with "will probably not"... you give more insight to the topic now, than you ever did before. a 5 year old could've told me to go with a-10... I wasnt stubburn, I wanted awnsers to my questions, suposedly from people that have used that cpu, if you would've said "I have heard others complain of 1080p not doing well with intel IGP" at the beginning, it would've been a huge help... I'm not stubburn, because I'm not buying anything right now, I have about a month to gather information and compare. And the awnser I wanted was an awnser to the stated question. It wasnt a topic of choices to begin with.

P.S. the reason I keep forgeting why I'm trying to find an iron awnser about g3420 is because right here where I live, fm2 mini itx boards are kinda pricy, if I consider a-6 and get a mini itx fm2 - for the same money I could already buy an mini itx i3
 

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The A6 was for a friend and he is very happy with it. All he does is watch/stream movies(netflix, divx, and 3D blu-ray), browse internet, and other basic PC stuff. The A6 is perfect for him. I built an A10 system for myself and I love it. I personally wouldn't go less than an A8 for my uses. I can be a pretty extreme multitasker at times. I do recommend certain i3s. The i3-3225, 3245, 4130, or 4330 would be great for HTPCs.