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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/16/2015 8:47 AM, Marlon Buchanan
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id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442409466468_11467">I run 4 older atoms
(using a couple different versions of Zotac Zboxes) as
frontends. One is a combined frontend/backend with an
HD-PVR. I don't do any transcoding, but I do commercial
flagging without any problems. Although I rarely watch any
programs same day, so I never pay attention to how long
flagging takes on the atom. I imagine it would be slow, but
everything else I do on them is fine. I agree with your
decision to look for a low power i3 or i5. But if you had an
atom it would be worth a shot.</span></div>
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face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
Andrew Stadt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:acstadt@stadt.ca"><acstadt@stadt.ca></a><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:01 AM<br>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Intel Atom backend?<br>
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On 16/09/15 07:42 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:<br
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Christopher Sean
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>> Thanks for all the help folks! I think I'm
going to search for a new i3<br clear="none">
>> or an i5 on the basis of your advice. Based on
what you've said the<br clear="none">
>> Atom won't be up to the job of commflagging HD
recordings done with my<br clear="none">
>> HD-PVR.<br clear="none">
>><br clear="none">
> Unless something has changed you might want to look
at the TCO of the<br clear="none">
> AMD chips as well. From what I've seen the Intel
chips are very<br clear="none">
> pricey for their performance if you're just looking
to spend $100.<br clear="none">
> However, they will probably draw less power so
you'll have to do the<br clear="none">
> math on the long-term. At least for purchase price
the Intel chips<br clear="none">
> seem to shine mostly if you're looking to spend
$200+ on a CPU.<br clear="none">
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> The only reason to buy something other than an Atom
is if you do<br clear="none">
> CPU-intensive processing, especially transcoding,
but perhaps<br clear="none">
> commercial flagging as well. I've not done either
on an Atom, but I<br clear="none">
> happily run Gentoo on an Atom for my front-end and
it handles HD just<br clear="none">
> fine (with hardware support).<br clear="none">
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> --<br clear="none">
> Rich<br clear="none">
I've never run one as a backend, but used a Zotac 1.6
Ghz dual <br clear="none">
core/nvidia as a frontend for several years, first with
it's own disk, <br clear="none">
then diskless, then with an SSD. While it worked as a
frontend, and is <br clear="none">
reasonably responsive with a really stripped down theme,
I always found <br clear="none">
it just "lacked" something in the overall "MythTV
experience". Your <br clear="none">
mileage can and will vary, depending what you
want/expect/desire/etc.<br clear="none">
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I eventually replaced it with an i3-2120T, with a
discrete GT430 <br clear="none">
(fanless). Yes, at peak demand it can, and does draw
more power then the <br clear="none">
old Atom, but looking at the cumulative consumption (ran
a kill-a-watt <br clear="none">
meter on both for a week - don't have the numbers in
front of me, but <br clear="none">
can probably dig them up - it was almost a dead heat. In
fairness the <br clear="none">
Atom required me to run an external powered usb hub to
make my CommandIR <br clear="none">
work properly (some weird chipset thing) and had the SSD
while to i3 was <br clear="none">
diskless.<br clear="none">
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Andrew
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It's a bit of a shift, but I have been happy with my ECS Liva as a
frontend for the past couple of months. I'd only recommend it as a
frontend though. I'm sure it does not have enough power for things
like transcoding.<br>
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Now I just need the time to work through the problems I'm having
with the newer USB IR receiver recommended to me here but which has
*not* worked. My production Liva is using an ancient Microsoft
receiver that works great.<br>
<br>
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo<br>
processor : 0<br>
vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>
cpu family : 6<br>
model : 55<br>
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2807 @ 1.58GHz<br>
stepping : 8<br>
microcode : 0x811<br>
cpu MHz : 499.786<br>
cache size : 1024 KB<br>
...<br>
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Dual core. Intel video. Micro-USB powered. <br>
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