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I recently bought this at a local distributor. I decide to get this so i can use it for my Home Theater PC or HTPC which is low powered. I prefered this cheap and CPU which requires a minimal power consumption. It was important for the video to perform the hardware decoding of Hi Def contents as with Blu Ray and HD DVD. I did not even choose an onboard video card because it will definitely consume too much power. And so far, this ingenius piece of miracle has met all the requirements. I am using an Intel Core2Duo E7200 CPU, with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. I can play Blu Ray movies without glitches. While using Total Media Theatre or TMT. Amazingly, the CPU is consuming just about 20% of resources. The only problem i encountered with the product is, it is unstable when in sleep and standby mode. The unit sometimes does not engage into sleep mode even if it’s idle for quite some time. But sometime it does work. I have reported this proble with the company Intel but unfortunately, they havent responded with regards to the problem. Maybe they could come up with a fix more likely a BIOS update.