[mythtv-users] Yet another noobie sanity check ;-)

[Stephen Tait]

At 08:58 05/07/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Stephen Tait wrote:
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>>>CPU             AMD Athlon XP2000+ (1.67GHz) Thoroughbred Retail
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>>If you're not going to do anything really intensive, you can easily get 
>>away with a Duron. I'm assuming you can't get any lower-powered Athlons.
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>Things like comm flagging, DVD/CD ripping and the like are very CPU 
>intensive...

You forgot to mention goom!

But yes, any of these thing will annihilate a Duron, but they do make a 
good stop-gap. The duron is also utterly pants at compiling things (not as 
awful as the twice-the-price celery's though). Personally, I'd always 
recommend an Athlon (preferably a Barton core) over an economy chip, but if 
money really is tight then a Duron will do at a pinch. I'm one of those "if 
I can't afford it now, I'll wait until I can and then get it" kinda guys, 
so personally I'd wait until the low-end bartons become as stupidly cheap 
as the rest of the Athlon TBred line. But by then the Athlon 64's will be 
the same price as the Bartons are now, and Dual Opteron workstations will 
grow on jujub trees, and you won't know what to do.

Simple rule of thumb is that if all you want to do is watch TV, you're 
ready to go with a PVR-2/350 and pretty much any low powered CPU. If you 
want to utilise any of the more "advanced" (as in that most people would 
describe them as essential, like comm flagging) features of Myth, you're 
almost always going to want a faster CPU.