Celeron 1037U 1.8GHz with 7750

[jacktesterson]

Meet a fairly Unique HTPC:

Intel Celeron 1037U 1.80GHz Ivy Bridge | ECS NM70-I Micro ITX | Asus 7750 1GB DDR5

It plays MadVR on highest settings just fine @ 1080p. For HTPC use (and really daily use aka browsing, media, email, music, etc) this is a great deal.

and it will allow some occasional gaming on my TV!

I recently sold my Gaming PC because, well, I just didn't use it much and could use the money elsewhere. But I do still have my games, so...

Going to run some benchmarks for fun!

Not much time tonight, but here is the first one! Requests accepted


Sleeping Dogs:

 

[Blue_Max]

thumbs-up!

How about some popular Blizzard stuff like WoW, SC2 and Diablo3?
I'll bet Bethesda's Fallout and Skyrim (default) would run just fine!

 

[jacktesterson]

thumbs-up!

How about some popular Blizzard stuff like WoW, SC2 and Diablo3?
I'll bet Bethesda's Fallout and Skyrim (default) would run just fine!

Unfortunately, these are not my style of games. (I only own Skyrim)

I can test that.

I am going to run the following benchmarks to start at what I consider to be very playable settings with a 360 controller from your couch. I am using a 50" Plasma with a screen resolution of 1360x768 on this HTPC. The TV is 6-7 years old now, but it still has a great picture. It was a $3000 TV new.

Batman: Arkham City
Just Cause 2
GTA 4
Dirt 3
Street Fighter IV
3DMARK11

 

[frozentundra123456]

Does that CPU have turbo? 1.8 ghz dual core I think will hold you back in online play with a lot of units. Will be interesting to see. I definitely would be interested in sky rim.

 

[Techhog]

Does that CPU have turbo? 1.8 ghz dual core I think will hold you back in online play with a lot of units. Will be interesting to see. I definitely would be interested in sky rim.

Celeron CPUs don't have turbo. They're just barebones.

 

[jacktesterson]

The unique thing about this processor is its an embedded CPU

the Motherboard/CPU/Heatsink combined for $80 is a pretty good value.

Only thing I've really noticed so far for my use (outside gaming) from my previous PC is unraring files

 

[wilds]

That's a pretty cool setup. The CPU would hold you back on some games, but on single-player games (DX9), I bet they would all run great.

In Skyrim, I am GPU limited even at 1.2 GHz on my CPU for my laptop.