<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Miroslav Suchý <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miroslav@suchy.cz">miroslav@suchy.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Drescher napsal(a):<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">>> - does the decoding benefit from dual cores or would I be better off with a<br>
>> single core at a higher clock rate?<br>
</div>Decoding is task which is hard to multitask. So if you only decode you<br>
are better with higher clock rate or bigger cache. But...<br>
If you decode and playback in same time it is better to have dual core,<br>
becouse you will get lower latency, which is what you want.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
>> - any benefit from a larger cache (is it worthwhile to go for 1MB of L2)?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, but it depend on price. In mythTV I expect 512kb cache give you 1%<br>
boost.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> I don't believe there is any benefit to getting a single core cpu that<br>
> was made 2 or more years ago (Is there anyone is making single core<br>
> cpus?) versus a current generation dual core.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Heat?<br>
Via chips are still single core.<br>
Intel Atom is single core (dual core just hit market).<br>
<br>
But yeah you probably want dual core.<br>
<br>
<br>
Miroslav Suchy<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I'm quite happy with the Core 2 Duo 7200 (2.53ghz) cpu I just got. It seems to handle everything I've thrown at it. I wouldn't use it if a silent frontend is what you're after, but I have it in my living room in an Antec Fusion case, and I'm happy with the noise level. <br>