[mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?

[Tim Tait]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Monday 02 August 2004 02:53 pm, Tim Tait wrote:
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>>Stephen Tait wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>The Nehemiah M-10000 is approximately as fast as a p3-500 for the purposes of 
>decoding/encoding video.
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>Isaac
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And about 2x faster than the prior C3 version at the same clock speeds. 
The floating point was only one bottleneck:)