Food fight!!!!! (was Re: [mythtv-users] Power to the Masses ...)

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Fri Mar 25 01:16:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:05 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> Hey, I didn't say I was an intel user, just that the general consensus
> is that for whatever reason the pentiums are better at it.

Well, for certain tasks, Megahertz really do matter.  Encoding
with lame, for example.

I get the impression, though, that they don't here.

> I'm a happy Athlon 1600 user (not for HD of course)
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:52:56 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:34 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > > It's not so much that athlons don't have the power, just that for some
> > > reason pentiums are better at the particular decoding process.
> > >
> > > might have something to do with the fact that all of myth is optimised
> > > for pentiumpro mmx....hmmmm
> > 
> > And that's the basis of your "Intel is better" idea, even though
> > Athlons have had MMX capability since Day 1?
> > 
> > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
> > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
> > 
> > $ for f in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags`; do echo $f; done
> > flags
> > :
> > fpu
> > vme
> > [snip]
> > pat
> > pse36
> > mmx       <<<<<<<<<<<<
> > fxsr
> > sse
> > pni
> > syscall
> > mmxext    <<<<<<<<<<<<
> > 3dnowext
> > 3dnow

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