[mythtv-users] Are either of these tuners viable for use?

[Maarten]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:03, Adam Felson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:47 +0100, Maarten wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:24, Adam Felson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote:

> > > Pentium4's with their amazing FSB speed might do better.
> >
> > Don't believe the hype. Pay more for less ?
>
> 800mhz on the FSB might make a huge difference on processing video.

Yes, it might.  But then again, it might not.  You can't base decisions on 
assumptions. Maybe the entire operation can run in L2 cache, and maybe it 
can't. If it can, FSB becomes all but meaningless.
Once the hype was the incredibly fast rambus memory. First off, it wasn't 
viable economically, and it didn't strike me as being all that fast(er) 
anyway.
Again, don't believe the hype.  Draw your own conclusions based on observable 
fact. Not on the benchmark-of-the-day and least of all on marketspeak.
An FSB figure alone means nothing. For example, if you have a 1meg L2 cache 
on-die and an FSB of 200, it may well (almost certainly even) outperform a 
CPU with a mere 128k L2 cache and a 800MHz FSB...

Maarten