[mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?

Tim Tait t.tait at comcast.net
Mon Aug 2 14:53:07 EDT 2004


Stephen Tait wrote:

> And contrary to my previous opinion, lots of people seem to have no 
> problems with the CPU on the EPIA's now. They used to suck a bit for 
> MPEG4 and the like, but seem much better now.

I believe they doubled the floating point units on the Nehemiah 10000 
and later cores. This brings them roughly on par with the Pentium 
floating point. The crippled floating point came from the Cyrix CPU 
history. I think they also bumped the cache up.

Tim




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