<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:31 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:27:36AM +1000, Julius Roberts wrote:<br>
> On 26 June 2011 02:31, Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron@rb303.net">aaron@rb303.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > So I want to upgrade my hardware from a Quad Core Intel (q8200) to a<br>
> > Six Core AMD (1055T) system.<br>
><br>
> You're upgrading your supercomputer for a faster supercomputer??<br>
<br>
</div>...not sure if the new system is going to be faster really. Will probably<br>
run cooler though. I made this transition myself when I managed to knock<br>
the CPU fan loose in my last box.<br>
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[deletia]<br>
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Extra CPUs are great for background jobs if you happen to have a lot<br>
of tuners. Faster cores are better if you need to do software decoding<br>
of any video.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>This is true, however, most people won't need that beef. Simply because you're not going to be running 6+ streams at once + trancoding. If I were OP, I'd leave the Intel, and just upgrade the video card to an nVidia 430GT. HDMI Video and audio with HD codec support.<br>