<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Fred Squires <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fsquires@gmail.com">fsquires@gmail.com</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;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Johnny<<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> I do not need a Quad Core<br>
>>>> Hyper Extreme Whatever Edition, a decent dual core should do it for now and<br>
>>>> probably have some reserves for future possible HD playback. I want<br>
>>>> something with low energy consumption and little heat production. An Atom<br>
>>>> won't do it though, will it?<br>
>><br>
>> No atom. But you may be able to get away with Core2Duo or pre-Phenom<br>
>> Athlon CPU, where you can get both the CPU and the motherboard for<br>
>> about $100.<br>
><br>
> A user on the list recently reported using an ION system as a backend.<br>
> It had an Atom 230 I believe and he got near real time commercial<br>
> flagging with 1080i ATSC recordings. So an Atom system is feasible as<br>
> a backend depending on your use case. If you want real time commercial<br>
> flagging with mulitiple HD recordings etc, it probably won't cut it.<br>
> But if you only have SD or rarely record more than one HD show at a<br>
> time you may be happy with an Atom system. There are also more<br>
> powerful Atom processors than the 230.<br>
<br>
</div>Also, some users have reported that the NVidia Ions (an Atom processor<br>
with an onboard NVidia 9400) work well for frontend only systems, even<br>
with HD when using vdpau. The only problem is, to use vdpau you either<br>
need to use SVN (version .22) or the backported patches (I've heard<br>
they work well but it's unsupported).<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Thanks for the input, guys...<br><br>Anyway, an additional case fan seems to have solved the stability problem that I could use as a justification to upgrade the hardware, so I'll probably delay the renewal some time...<br>
<br>Have a nice day!<br><br>Jan<br>