<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">A discussion of overclocking belongs elsewhere in the main, but I<br>suspect I am not alone in having a working SD system but wanting to
<br>look into HD for the future.<br><br>In that regard a discussion of CPUs is relevant, and I just wanted to<br>point out that the Opteron series is often overlooked because they<br>are "server" chips (whatever that means).
<br><br>The results posted here by many folks about success or failure to<br>playback HD well seem very inconsistent, I suspect because there are<br>so many unreported variables such as what else is running, what<br>window manager/desktop, what resolution, what if any de-interlacing,
<br>and many other factors.<br><br>But a lot of folks seem to *almost* be able to playback HD, and for<br>them a mild OC (perhaps 10%) might make the difference between<br>working well and not.</blockquote>
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<div>For the record my 3200+ is not overclocked. I'm running as advertised and HD is no problem. I was thinking about the possiblity of running an Opteron, but like you eluded to, it's not clear what exactly is better for specfic applications: Opteron or Athlon64.
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<div>-Greg</div><br> </div><br>