Venerable old 1155 i3 struggling with 4K, options?

[Mojo]

A couple of years back when agglomerating bit for my media centre I bought an old 1155 CPU/mobo combo at a knock down price. It's an old i3 3220 (Hyperthreaded Dual Core) & a cheapo h61 motherboard, and after I popped an old 7950 in there 'twas all I needed at the time as the media centre was for light gaming and streaming/watching shizzle only.

I've just got a bigass 65" 4K tv though and as soon as I try to put 4k content on it (mainly youtube/netflix at the moment) CPU usage pops up to 100% and the video chugs like my old housemate attempting the Yard of Ale challenge.

with 1155 as a socket so damn old my options are pretty limited, is there any scope for putting in a more meaty CPU or should I just retire the damn thing and get a modern I3 cpu/mobo or similar?

 

[Davedree]

for 4k decode on Netflix you have to use kaby lake, everything else is blacklisted.
For local 4k content (discs,hdd images etc) you can use Kodi and a cheap gpu 1050/polaris will decode 4k content with your current system setup.

 

[OspreyO]

How is it black listed if he says it plays back but slowly. Just curious.

 

[Davedree]

How is it black listed if he says it plays back but slowly. Just curious.

Because it;s using the cpu cores to try and playback the stream,
4k decode of gpu's are blacklisted, due to the drm and copyright protection system.

 

[OspreyO]

OK thanks. Does it use the GPU in a baby lake system.

 

[Davedree]

OK thanks. Does it use the GPU in a baby lake system.

Yeah the igp has a decoder to offload the h.265 material.

 

[OspreyO]

I've given up on h265 even lower res as it's just too demanding on my old ancient kit. I stick to h264. It seems like if I was interested in upgrading I'd have to jump to kaby.

Will it do the same with kaby Pentium?

 

[Davedree]

We can hope that Netflix and other streaming services will allow Gpu's to decode the media in the future.
But currently this is Microsoft and Intels way of forcing people onto Windows 10 + Edge and Kaby Lake via Netflix


Yeah the Kaby-pentiums can decode 4k h.265 too, not sure if Celeron can but it uses the same hd610 so it should be able to.

 

[OspreyO]

OK thanks.

 

[PhoenixUK]

Get £40 amazon fire tv box - will play 4k just fine. Tbh even your TV should have netflix/amazon. My 4k Sammy can, also will play movies from storage.

You won't be gaming on 4k without £300 gpu and i7/ryzen probably

 

[eddiew]

You won't be gaming on 4k without £300 gpu...

And the other half

But yeah, does the TV itself not allow Netflix at 4k? I'd sort of expect that from a device of that class...