[mythtv-users] Intel Atom backend?

[David Watkins]

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I've been using an old dual-core atom in a Zotac motherboard as a combined
backend / frontend  for several years and I'am still happy with it.

I don't ever do commercial flagging or transcoding though I suspect I would
be dissapointed with its performance if I tried.

Menu performance is fine but I'm using one of the simplest themes with no
fan-art or preview window animation.

It can't manage the MythMusic visualisations very well.

The main thing I worried about was whether the on-board PSU would support
the number of hard disks I wanted to connect along with the several USB
tuners.  I have an SSD,  DVD, two spinning harddisks and three USB tuners -
and haven't run into problems [yet].

I'd say if you have an atom system available then  give ti a go, but I
wouldn't go out of my way to use one.

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