Intel Quick Resume - Is it necessary?

maral · **19th February 2007, 08:44 PM**

Hi Guys,

I have been researching the various options for a custom built MCE rig now for a month and was wondering how necessary it is to have intel quick resume support?

Ideally, I want a HDPC that can boot quickly and doesn't chew resources when it isn't doing anything.

Will intel quick resume give me that?

Also, is there an AMD equivalent? Since I can get a fairly cheap dual core X2 now.

Last thing. The XFX 7950GT looks awesome and is fanless. Any opinion on this card?

Cheers

woohoo · **19th February 2007, 10:18 PM**

I used to be a bit of a sceptic, but run Quick Resume with Vista on my setup (see signature) and it's the best thing since sliced bread. It goes into S3 (fanless) standby perfectly - no need for plugins and no problems going back to standby after playing/recording TV. If you go to sleep while recording it will close the UI and audio, stay awake for the recording, and go into standby after that. I could never do that with MCE.

CraigMBecket · **24th February 2007, 06:57 PM**

Hi maral,

I know nothing about the Intel quick resume but assume its board specific not cpu related, my ASUS mobo which supports AMD CPU's has a form of quick resume but it only puts the machine into an S1 state and leaves all the fans on so is noisy. I use S3 via MST.

Craig.