The intel graphics chip set and northbridge are power hungry. I think the idea is optimize code for the 330 and not the peripherals with this ine
ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom -----Original Message----- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:dar...@dons.net.au] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:12 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Cc: Bob McGwier; hp...@lists.hpsdr.org; q...@yahoogroups.com; flexra...@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE. On Monday 29 December 2008 06:53:30 Bob McGwier wrote: > I am running GnuRadio, SDRMAX, and PowerSDR on my new Intel ATOM 330 > MiniITX motherboard. I had to put a firewire card in the single PCI slot. > The integrated intel graphics are nice and spiffy (glxgears is at 800 > fps if you turn off the desktop enhancements, no wiggly windows please). > > > > At 96000 PowerSDR is running under 15% CPU. The ATOM burns EIGHT > watts and has dual hyperthread cores (shows up as four processors in task > manager). Unfortunately the 945 chipset eats ~20W - god knows why Intel lumbered the Atom with it :( Toms Hardware (and others) did a test of the Atom vs an underclocked Athlon and the later won most of the tests http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997-1.html I think the Atom combo is cheaper and smaller though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
