On 10/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom R.</b> <<a href="mailto:sillyhed2000@hotmail.com">sillyhed2000@hotmail.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;">
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I'm (still.) putting together a mythtv box, and here are my options. I can get an Athlon AM2 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (2300mhz) for $108, or a Celeron 3.2ghz 533FSB MODEL D 351 LGA775 64Bit for $85. The real question is, is dual core worth losing
0.7ghz and paying $23 extra? I plan to have two tuners and it needs to be HDTV capable.<br><br>Thanks.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>It's definitely worth going dual core. <br><br>I would recommend looking at at BE-2350. This is AMD's new low power (45w) dual core CPU. It compares with a Athlon X2 4000+.
<br><br>I recently purchased a mobo combo with this CPU at Fry's for $78.<br><br>It runs a lot cooler in place of the Athlon XP 2600+ that it replaced.<br><br>Tom<br>