[mythtv-users] AMD 64 3200+ vs P4 3.0 GHz.
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Jan 29 22:14:49 UTC 2008
On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Yann Lehmann wrote:
> jedi at mishnet.org a écrit :
>>
>> If given the choice between a 3200+ and a P4, definitely go with
>> the AMD chip. With a good nvidia card, the 3200+ will probably
>> be good enough to do anything you want with it, even including
>> reasonably fast h264 decoding.
>>
>> The vidcard really does make a lot of difference in Myth.
>>
>>
>
> Is this always true, or only when xvmc comes to play ?
>
> I just ask because several list-members suggested lately to drop xvmc,
> even with nvidia-based cards, and I thought xvmc was one of the
> biggest
> advantage of nvidia over ati.
>
> Yann
Video cards will be more important once myth uses any h.264 processing
the card has to offer. Currently, it does not so a cheapo video card
is ok.
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