Food fight!!!!! (was Re: [mythtv-users] Power to the Masses ...)

[Jeff Simpson]

Hey, I didn't say I was an intel user, just that the general consensus
is that for whatever reason the pentiums are better at it.

I'm a happy Athlon 1600 user (not for HD of course)

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:52:56 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:34 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > It's not so much that athlons don't have the power, just that for some
> > reason pentiums are better at the particular decoding process.
> >
> > might have something to do with the fact that all of myth is optimised
> > for pentiumpro mmx....hmmmm
> 
> And that's the basis of your "Intel is better" idea, even though
> Athlons have had MMX capability since Day 1?
> 
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
> 
> $ for f in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags`; do echo $f; done
> flags
> :
> fpu
> vme
> [snip]
> pat
> pse36
> mmx       <<<<<<<<<<<<
> fxsr
> sse
> pni
> syscall
> mmxext    <<<<<<<<<<<<
> 3dnowext
> 3dnow
> 
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