[mythtv-users] Intel Atom backend?

[Saul]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:35:57 -0400
Christopher Sean Hilton <chris at vindaloo.com> wrote:

> The hard drive in my backend is starting to die. I'm plan to replace
> with a cold spare tonight. I'd like to replace it with an SSD but the
> motherboard in my backend is so old that SSD is unsupported. Thus, I'm
> considering an Intel Atom Motherboard for use as a backend. I'm in New
> England so electricity is pretty expensive. A low power motherboard is
> almost a must. 
> 
> My tuners are: An HD-PVR with about 250 channels and a pair of Silicon
> Dust HD Homerun primes, one carries about 30 channels from my naked
> cable feed and the other carries about 5 channels from my antenna. 
> 
> My current backend runs on a positively ancient AMD CPU. It's first or
> second gen amd64. The only video processing I do is commercial
> flagging. It would be nice to do more. Specifically I'd like to
> transcode anything that comes in into a format suitable for Apple TV 2
> / iPad. I don't have to do that transcoding on the backend. I'm handy
> with ssh and shell so transcoding the output on my MacPro would be all
> that hard. That said, I'm more than willing to admit that it would be
> simpler if I could make it happen directly on the backend.
> 
> Am I going to be happy with the Atom or disappointed?
> 
> Can I get a Core i3, i5, or i7 to do this job with really low? <= 40
> watts idle, 100 loaded?

I have i3-4130T, it is 35 W under load. I haven't done any recoding,
but considering how well it compiles (Gentoo) I'd say it beats Atom
hands down.


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Cheers, Saul