I have a PII 450 w/ a 100Mhz FSB that I used as a frontend with
KnoppMyth last year. It couldn't handle 720x480 MPEG2, but it
could get by 512x320 or so. (I forget the exact resolution I was
using). <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Wafkowski</b> <<a href="mailto:mikeyw@sohogurus.net">mikeyw@sohogurus.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Piers - Intel locked the multiplier and the cpu just ignores the settings<br>from the MB. As far as why the settings are there...I don't actually know,<br>there were, "back in the day"a fair amount of unlocked "engineering samples"
<br>that were around but I doubt if that is the reason. I'm guessing the reason<br>is legacy, same as why parallel ports, FDs etc. on new PCs.<br><br>I'm to lazy today to google you up an answer 8^)<br><br>I'm personally running a P3 550 slot 1 at 616 MHz (
5.5 x 112 MHz) as a FE<br>machine but I suspect it might be a bit "light" for a BE machine. You might<br>get by with using a TV card with hardware encoding and you didn't need to be<br>watching TV while you're recording something. I'm sure you'll get feedback
<br>from people who've tried running a FE/BE system on such a machine.<br><br>Peace,<br>Mike Wafkowski<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Piers Kittel" <<a href="mailto:mythtv@biased.org">mythtv@biased.org
</a>><br>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 8:10 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Out of spec FSB speeds for a P3?
<br><br><br>> Replying to Mike Wafkowski's email:<br>><br>> Hmm I seem to remember something about this - does this still apply to<br>> my board that sets the multipiler via DIP switches? Or does the DIP<br>> switches just tell the processor what multipiler to use and the
<br>> processor can ignore this? So what's the point of having DIP switches<br>> that sets the multipiler on the motherboard? Yes I do know half of the<br>> switches sets the FSB speed, I'm referring to the other half that sets
<br>> the multipiler.<br>><br>> If so, will non HDTV MythTV work fine on a P3 500 on a 100MHz FSB?<br>><br>> Replying to Mechcozmo's (Brandon) email:<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________
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