[mythtv-users] Cheap X2's at newegg.

Brian D. Frost bfrost at brainboy.com
Thu Jul 26 20:37:25 UTC 2007


I am running on an MSI Neo4 (939) and love it... Really happy with it. The only thing that I did was remove the chipset fan and replace it with a Zalman heat sink for going quieter...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Loron" <peterl at standingwave.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:28:44 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap X2's at newegg.

Can anybody suggest a good cheap Socket 939 mobo? My backend/server box 
is a little creaky and I've been thinking of upgrading...

Thanks.

-Pete

Jake Palmer wrote:
>> From: jedi at mishnet.org
>> Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Cheap X2's at newegg.
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:54 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>>      If you've got an older Socket 939 based system,
>> now might be a good time to give it a little turbo boost.
>> Newegg is selling X2 3800+'s for 70 bux. I got a couple
>> for myself. I've already upgraded the backend and plan
>> to do the same for the frontend.
>>
>>       The "strict division of resources" in a dual core
>> seems to benefit myth considerably. mysql can abuse it's
>> own processor if it needs to. The same goes for transcoding.
>> My effective thruput is about 2x what it was on the old 3500+.
>>
>>       Can both cores be exploited for h264 decoding?
>>
> 
> I've been running an X2 3800 for a couple months and I'm extremely happy 
> with it.  It's on a combo frontend/backend machine.  Just last night had it 
> commflagging and transcoding at the same time while watching an HD recording 
> without a hiccup.  It's MUCH more capable than the 3200+ it replaced.
> 
> Jake
> 
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