[mythtv-users] Multithreaded? Duo vs Quad?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 16:14:42 UTC 2008


> I read on the MythTV website that for HDTV, a good rule is 1GHz per tuner.
> If I am to put 3-4 tuners, shouldn't I have a capacity of 3-4Ghz?  If you
> say that multithreading doesn't make good use of the second processor, then
> shouldn't I go with the Duo at 3.0 so that the one core primarily being used
> can handle the potential of three streams?
It would take advantage of the cores in this case. I mean a single
operation generally will not make good use of multiple cores but
recording on multiple tuners is one operation that can provided your
system can write to disk fast enough.

John


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