The Atom chip is amazing. I was interested in you question. So I started 2 mp3 streams to VLC from my VortexBox here running on a single core Atom. I then fired up my SB3 streaming FLAC of course. Oh and I have an over night background job running converting about 1000 FLACs to mp3s. All three players sounded great 0 skip or distortion. You can see a screen shot of top below. I'm running about 17% CPU load and that's with only 512MB of RAM. I like to keep this system light to really test out VortexBox. You can see I swapped 48K of memory but that was when I fired up all three players at the same time and the CPU was already busting it's ass transcoding my FLACs. It didn't swap anymore after it re-adjusted.
So the point of all this is get 1GB of memory and you should be fine. if you really want to go to town spend a few bucks more for the dual core Atom. top - 00:56:14 up 6:24, 2 users, load average: 1.68, 1.68, 1.42 Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 17.2%us, 1.8%sy, 49.4%ni, 31.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 505532k total, 499352k used, 6180k free, 3804k buffers Swap: 786424k total, 48k used, 786376k free, 297028k cached -- agillis rip, tag, get cover artÂ… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agillis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21140 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60703
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