On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:44 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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">> Yes, and the Sempron/Celeron parts are single-core, very cheap, and have<br>
> pretty low thermal ratings - beneficial because I'm hoping to reduce system<br>
> noise as well with this upgrade.<br>
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</div>Not powerful enough for HD.<br>
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John<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Not entirely true, however, having said that if I had to build a system right now, I wouldn't suggest using a Sempron. It's what I'm using because I had basically a $0 budget and I already had it laying around. <br>
<br>A quick snapshot of my configuration:<br><br>Fedora 8 x86_64<br>Latest mythtv from atrpms<br>Sempron 3000+ (64bit) (Socket 754)<br>Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP video<br>768MB of PC3200 memory<br>250GB PATA HD for the system, database, videos, pictures, music, etc...<br>
500GB SATA HD for recordings only (VERY IMPORTANT especially on mediocre hardware)<br>HDHomerun for OTA HD (ATSC)<br><br>Performance:<br>I can record two HD shows and playback one simultaneously with minimal hickups, i.e. there are sometimes noticable pauses but not enough to be unwatchable.<br>
No pause issues in playback when recording one/playing back one.<br>Brief pauses when bringing up or clearing the OSD.<br>My only major problem is that the program guide is not usable when brought up while watching an HD channel.<br>
This is all using the Slim playback profile but the deinterlacing looks good enough on my 32" LCD.<br>