[mythtv-users] Recommended CPU speed

steve at nexusuk.org steve at nexusuk.org
Wed Mar 24 13:33:54 EST 2004


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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mitko Haralanov wrote:

> I am planning on getting an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) CPU. Do you
> think that this would be over- or underkill.

I'd say overkill - I use an Athlon XP 1900+ and I'm doing software MPEG4 
encoding and decoding (on a single BTTV card).  I can't really see you 
needing anything over 1 GHz (probably not even that) if you're doing 
everything in hardware.

- -- 

 - Steve                                             http://www.nexusuk.org/

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