[mythtv-users] 1080i HD without XvMC, how much horsepower?

[Mark Lehrer]

> The 3700 will give you better single-thread performance than the X2
> 3800.  The 3700 (San Diego core, 1 MB L2 cache) is clocked at 2.2
> GHz, while the X2 3800 (either Manchester or Windsor core, 512K L2
> cache per core) is clocked at 2.0 GHz.  If the MPEG-2 decoder used
> by MythTV is mostly single-threaded (can someone confirm or deny
> this?), the larger cache and faster clock speed of the 3700 would be
> a win.

On my system, both X and MythTV are consuming a LOT of cpu - dual
core is a huge win.

Mark