[mythtv-users] Dual or Single core Athlon64 for MythTV front-end machine

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 18:05:25 UTC 2009


2009/1/31 Dale Pontius <DEPontius at edgehp.net>:
> I'm putting together a dedicated MythTV front-end machine, and at the
> moment am picking the CPU, going through the 45W choices at Newegg.
>
> Prime Candidates would be the X2 2350, and the single-core 1640.  The
> former is of course dual-cored, clocked at 1.9GHz, with twin 512k L2.
> The latter is clocked at 2.6GHz with 1M L2.
>
> My current inclination is to go with the latter.  While it has less
> overall crunching power, it's single-thread execution is likely better,
> and I don't know how much a MythTV front-end can really use two cores.
> I understand that this is a no-brainer for a back-end, that more cores
> is better, but it seems an open question to me for a front-end.
>
> Incidentally, some of the other hardware - real or planned:
>  Antec Fusion Veris (silver) case - wife-approved and selected
>  MSI NX8500GT graphics card - gives me NTSC today, HDMI next year
>  ASUS M2N68-AM - least embedded graphics currently in-stock
>  IDE-Compact flash adapter, run /var over NFS - diskless system
>  2G DDR2 in 2 sticks
>

get a board with VDPAU support. 7050 does not support it. you can use
single core with it.


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