[mythtv-users] Low power AMD processors

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 22:30:21 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM, David Schlenk<mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
>>
>> Not having one of these I do not know about performance however I used
>> K8 processors at lower frequency with 1080i successfully.
>>
>> One thing that is very attractive to me is idle power and if you
>> believe the following link the 250 is excellent at that:
>>
>> http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=42&limit=1&limitstart=6
>>
>
> Yeah, that's what is interesting to me about them. Low power + low
> cost the big question is how well do they perform. I suppose I could
> just bite the bullet and find out but I'm hoping to learn from the
> experience of others if at all possible.
>

They have a better IPC than k8 cores of the same frequency. You might
want to check back discussions of what k8 processors can do with HDPVR
output.

John M. Drescher


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