[mythtv-users] Recommended CPU speed
Will Dormann
wd at pobox.com
Wed Mar 24 21:11:35 EST 2004
At 05:11 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>What's everyone's thoughts on the CPU speed requirements for MythTV and
>DVD playing? I've settled on the PVR250 for encoding, and it seems
>there are happy users with <2GHz processors. I've even seen some
>Celeron users. I was thinking of getting a 2.6GHz Celeron, but I've
>never had a Celeron. The small cache makes me nervous. Anyone getting
>good results with a Celeron watching DVDs, live TV and MPEG4 streams? I
>assume MP3s are fine...
The P4-based Celeron chips are quite horrible performers. They're easily
trounced by the low-end AMD Duron chips. But there's nothing that my
MythTV machine does that really requires a lot of CPU power. I picked a
2.0GHz Celeron to go along with my Pundit. (I like the Pundit, so it was
the Intel route for me this time)
I guess an exception would be some of the filters. My 2.0 chip won't
handle kerneldeint + denoise3d at the same time, so I just do the former.
It looks fine anyway, so I'm not concerned.
-WD
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