Why do you want to turn off xvmc?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 8:38 PM, Raphael <<a href="mailto:rpooser@gmail.com">rpooser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Gabe Rubin wrote:<br>> On Jan 31, 2008 3:17 PM, Tom Greer <<a href="mailto:trgreer@gmail.com">trgreer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Fry's regularly advertises motherboard/CPU combo deals. I recently picked<br>
>> up a ECS AM2 socket motherboard with built-in nVidia graphics and an AMD<br>>> BE-2350 Althlon X2 CPU for about $80.<br>>><br>>> I'd pursue a deal like that rather than invest any additional money in a<br>
>> socket 754 system.<br>>><br>>><br>>> Tom<br>><br>> That is a good point, and indeed, is how I got this current system.<br>> The only thing is that the deal was for a small form factor iDeq made<br>
> by biostar that included the CPU. The computer is similar to a<br>> shuttle. So getting a new mobo is not an option here, although I<br>> would certainly wait for a deal like this if I wanted a new system<br>
> completely.<br>><br>> I guess the consensus is that I am not going to get much difference in<br>> performance by simply plopping in the new CPU, or if I do, it won't be<br>> $50 worth of difference.<br>
> _______________________________________________<br><br><br></div>Well... the difference just has to be enough to turn off xvmc going by<br>your original post, if that's worth $50 to you. 2 GHz on an athlon64 is<br>
definitely enough to watch HD w/o xvmc in my case. That was socket 939,<br>but the only difference in your case should be lack of dual channel<br>memory. I don't know how that affects media playback, I'd guess not<br>
much. With the sempron do you peg at 100% with xvmc off?<br><font color="#888888"><br>Raphael<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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