[mythtv-users] Recommended CPU speed
Khanh Tran
khanh at slc.edu
Wed Mar 24 17:11:02 EST 2004
What's everyone's thoughts on the CPU speed requirements for MythTV and
DVD playing? I've settled on the PVR250 for encoding, and it seems
there are happy users with <2GHz processors. I've even seen some
Celeron users. I was thinking of getting a 2.6GHz Celeron, but I've
never had a Celeron. The small cache makes me nervous. Anyone getting
good results with a Celeron watching DVDs, live TV and MPEG4 streams? I
assume MP3s are fine...
-Khanh
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Foddy [mailto:bfoddy at visi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:48 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recommended CPU speed
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Patrick Reynolds wrote:
> Until you try to cool it! Buy whatever can be cooled with a CPU
> heatsink and a slow case fan. If your CPU needs its own fan, it
> doesn't belong in a frontend.
>
> The mid-range AMDs (2000-2400 or so) seem to offer a good mix of
> price, performance, and power dissipation. I have an Athlon 2400+
> Barton with heatsink only in a Shuttle SK41G, and the case fan never
> has to step up to fast-and-noisy mode, even when doing MPEG4 encoding,
> playback, and commercial flagging.
>
> --Patrick
>
They are a little pricey, but the Zalman 7000 series cpu fans are very
quiet. I have one a XP2500 and even at its fastest mode I can barely
hear the machine in quiet living room. And the cpu runs about 35C, I
could probably slow it down more...
They are also a bit heavy, apparently over the recommended heatsink
weight, so handle the case carefully.
Brian
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