[mythtv-users] Motherboard upgrade question - ION2 or CPU grunt?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Jan 16 18:26:06 UTC 2012


On 1/16/2012 05:33, Mike Perkins wrote:
> While I was looking through the motherboard page, I came across another board of
> interest, Gigabyte E350N-USB3 [2]. This board plus (cheaper) 4Gb would cost £129
> + VAT.
>
> Now, this has an AMD processor, so I'd be doing the whole decoding thing in CPU
> rather than GPU if I went that way.

The basic problem is you can't expect to do all your decoding on that 
CPU.  An E-350 is about half as fast as the recommended processor for 
CPU decoding, while the average dual core Atom is about 1/3rd as fast.


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