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Originally Posted by huhn

AVX2 is very important for decoding and gives serious IPC gains and is used a lot in the past years: http://www.redaktion.tu-berlin.de/fi...n/chi2015b.pdf

I agree it's -a good thing-. However, it's NOT-important in the least for videoplayback/ madvr.

If a 4.7ghz i5 Sandybridge can CPU decode Full bitrate 4K bluray, There's flat out no reason to chase a CPU upgrade, if that budget can be put towards GPU instead.