[mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Aug 2 15:05:31 EDT 2004


On Monday 02 August 2004 02:53 pm, Tim Tait wrote:
> Stephen Tait wrote:
> > And contrary to my previous opinion, lots of people seem to have no
> > problems with the CPU on the EPIA's now. They used to suck a bit for
> > MPEG4 and the like, but seem much better now.
>
> I believe they doubled the floating point units on the Nehemiah 10000
> and later cores. This brings them roughly on par with the Pentium
> floating point. The crippled floating point came from the Cyrix CPU
> history. I think they also bumped the cache up.

The Nehemiah M-10000 is approximately as fast as a p3-500 for the purposes of 
decoding/encoding video.

Isaac


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