On 10/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Freeman</b> <<a href="mailto:mlfreeman@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mlfreeman@gmail.com</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;">
I was looking at my current mythfrontandbackend system and thinking about upgrading it when I realized that a Mac Mini Core Duo might be faster.<br><br>Current:<br>Athlon64 3000+<br>1 GB DDR400 RAM<br>250 GB WD SATA hard drive (for OS and Myth recordings...I never manage to fill it up...)
<br>400 GB WD SATA hard drive (for a samba share for other things)<br>pcHDTV3000 (for clear QAM...I added it 6 months after I built the machine)<br>DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite (for over the air or clear QAM...I added it 8 months after I built the machine)
<br>WinTV PVR500 (the original tuner I put in when I built the box)<br><br>The system seems almost able to play back all types of HDTV smoothly...I can't get XVMC to work for more than 10 seconds at a time, so I don't use it.
<br>I also have a few services (samba, apache, subversion, etc) on there for some personal coding / other things.<br><br><br>I want to upgrade to a dual core system with 2 GB RAM for two reasons:<br>1. Faster individual cores seems like the easiest way to make sure my HDTV playback is finally flawless...it actually got better from
0.18 to 0.19 (haven't gone to 0.20 yet).<br>2. The second core ought to make it possible to run a VMWare VM or something similarly demanding at the same time as a Myth HDTV show.<br><br>I got to thinking that a 1.83 GHz Core Duo Mac Mini with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB internal drive might just be all I need.
<br></blockquote></div><br></span>Hmm. That would get you dual cores but each single core will be about the same speed as the Athlon64 3000+ that you currently have. Why not spend $100 on a second GB of memory and $250 on a
2.4Ghz
dual core processor upgrade for your current system, <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103626" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103626
</a><br><br>John<br><span class="sg"><br>John<br>
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Isn't a single core on a Core Duo faster per cycle than an early Athlon 64?<br>Also, the Mac Mini uses Intel onboard graphics...would their recent decision to open source all their graphics drivers make XvMC more likely to work than even with nVidia cards?
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