[mythtv-users] nVidia ION motherboards - Single- or Dual-Core?

[jedi]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:06:03PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > The wife and I are planning on getting a large (most-likely 1080P)
> > flatscreen for ourselves for Christmas.  Rather than add a full-sized
> > frontend, I'd like to try net-booting one of the ION boards.  I'd like
> > it to be as quiet as possible, so I'm leaning towards the fanless
> > single-core.  Does the extra horsepower of the dual-core model get
> > utilized under Myth?
> >
> 
> As a frontend, no.  With VDPAU, a single core Atom is more than enough.

   I agree. Go with whichever option is the most quiet. 

   The video card should be doing all of the heavy lifting on this system. 
Your only problem is going to be Flash and a faster multi-core ION won't 
really help for that.