<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@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>So I saw an article today about Atom motherboards and saw this as an example:</div>
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<div>With the Intel chipset and Intel's support for XvMC across their product line, does this make a worthy option for a frontend now?</div>
<br>_______________________________________________</blockquote><div><br>I saw that as well and did some Googling for performance benchmarks. I found this random note:<br><br>"<a name="msg_1671819">Now, Intel demonstrated the 1.6GHz model, Z530,
running CINEBENCH 9.5 with and without hyper-threading enabled. The
non-HT CPU returned a benchmark score of 103, and the HT-enabled model
one of 158, as shown above. Putting that into some kind of context, an
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ benchmarks at 256, and, on the other end of the
scale, an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 at 1,327 marks, in a test which
is heavily compute-intensive."<br>- From http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=101&threadid=1671819&pagenumber=1&msgcount=7&subpage=1&product_id=30092 <br><br>Some anecdotal comments put it in the realm of the PIII for CPU power, which I think would be too slow for an HD FE. Engadget tells me that there will be a dual-core version of this CPU soon, so it may have promise in a few months once it matures. The other question I have is about the GMA 950 video - I've heard that Intel has opened their code dramatically and we can hope for better XVMC support at some point? Is it ready now or would we want to drop a Geforce card in that slot (Assuming the CPU could handle HD)?<br>
<br>Seems like a hacked $199 AppleTV is still the sweet spot for an HD FE at the moment, IMHO.<br></a> <br></div></div><br>