j1900 vs N3050 for a media center

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I'm trying to figure out which processor is the better option for a media center. It'll mostly be used for streaming and my primary concern is avoiding buffering and jitters. I'm pretty sure dual core is plenty for performance but my primary concern is the GPU. On paper the the N3050 has 3 times the Execution Units and is 2 years newer and supports a few extra's even with the base speed 1/2 the j1900.

So in short any opinions or experience using either of these? Would I be better just going with something a little more robust instead? I just want it to work without a lot of hassle and I really don't want to get something only to have it not work properly.
 
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The n3050 doesn't have half the speed speed (unles your counting cores then it has half). The speed n3050 is 1.6base 2.16ghz boost vs 2ghz base 2.4 boost of the j1900. So clock speed isn't as big a gap as you think. Performance should be OK on either chip. If you do any video encode decode the j1900 might be more useful but my guess is you have a desktop for that.
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The n3050 doesn't have half the speed speed (unles your counting cores then it has half). The speed n3050 is 1.6base 2.16ghz boost vs 2ghz base 2.4 boost of the j1900. So clock speed isn't as big a gap as you think. Performance should be OK on either chip. If you do any video encode decode the j1900 might be more useful but my guess is you have a desktop for that.
 
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You would be correct, this would be strictly for streaming video and maybe using a NAS or something else to play files locally or remotely. I'm trying to avoid any resource bottlenecks mostly, dual cores are fine for a streaming media box, 4Gb Ram, Network has plenty of bandwidth as well. My only concern is the integrated GPU which may or may not cause playback problems. My desktop has more than enough power to run something like this, but this keeps me from having to fiddle with that unless you know of a really good suite I can install for it. Otherwise it's just easier to have a fanless box dedicated to media.
 
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