[mythtv-users] System upgrade idea...comments and suggestions wanted, please?

[Michael Freeman]

On 10/14/06, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/14/06, Michael Freeman <mlfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I was looking at my current mythfrontandbackend system and thinking
> > about upgrading it when I realized that a Mac Mini Core Duo might be faster.
> >
> > Current:
> > Athlon64 3000+
> > 1 GB DDR400 RAM
> > 250 GB WD SATA hard drive (for OS and Myth recordings...I never manage
> > to fill it up...)
> > 400 GB WD SATA hard drive (for a samba share for other things)
> > pcHDTV3000 (for clear QAM...I added it 6 months after I built the
> > machine)
> > DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite (for over the air or clear QAM...I added it 8
> > months after I built the machine)
> > WinTV PVR500 (the original tuner I put in when I built the box)
> >
> > The system seems almost able to play back all types of HDTV smoothly...I
> > can't get XVMC to work for more than 10 seconds at a time, so I don't use
> > it.
> > I also have a few services (samba, apache, subversion, etc) on there for
> > some personal coding / other things.
> >
> >
> > I want to upgrade to a dual core system with 2 GB RAM for two reasons:
> > 1. Faster individual cores seems like the easiest way to make sure my
> > HDTV playback is finally flawless...it actually got better from 0.18 to
> > 0.19 (haven't gone to 0.20 yet).
> > 2. The second core ought to make it possible to run a VMWare VM or
> > something similarly demanding at the same time as a Myth HDTV show.
> >
> > I got to thinking that a 1.83 GHz Core Duo Mac Mini with 2 GB RAM and a
> > 160 GB internal drive might just be all I need.
> >
>
> Hmm. That would get you dual cores but each single core will be about the
> same speed as the Athlon64 3000+ that you currently have.  Why not spend
> $100 on a second GB of memory and $250 on a 2.4Ghz dual core processor
> upgrade for your current system,
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103626
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> John
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> John
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Isn't a single core on a Core Duo faster per cycle than an early Athlon 64?
Also, the Mac Mini uses Intel onboard graphics...would their recent decision
to open source all their graphics drivers make XvMC more likely to work than
even with nVidia cards?
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