Of course, I agree. I just fumbling around here trying to figure out why I seem to have more processor headroom remaining on my little 2.8Ghz Proc when running these test that seem to slam my hard drive.
One thing that may explain some of the performance improvments are the apparent default charactaristics of my MSI Mobo. It seems that the BIOS has been set by default for what they call "Dynamic Overclocking", I just busted my CPU running at just over 3Ghz on my system monitor this morning. It peaked at that for just a few seconds, then settled back to normal. (This motherboard is all of 3 weeks in my chassis). It seems the default was "Captain" mode, which seems to do moderate "on demand" overclocking of the CPU, AGP and PCI Bus Speeds. Probably why my numbers look different from others. Probably not what I want set-up if I want this thing to live long! :) -Blair Brad Templeton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:55:34PM -0700, Blair Preston wrote: > > OK, I found the settings and they are defaulted to xv. Should I disable xv > > to > > compile with XvMC support? or does it matter? > > You want them both. The main thing you must "choose" is xvmc and the > xvmc-like interface the unichrome chips have. This is outlined in > settings.pro > > > > ran hdparm -t and got 54.55/MB sec > > This is a decent number for a modern drive. But it also indicates to > me that you will not gain a lot going from ata/133 to sata-150, though > I have not tried it out. The limiting factor I believe is the rotational > speed of the disk and the number of heads. > > But all these speeds are way more than the 2 mb/second needed for HDTV > playback. If you started playing and recording tons of HDTV streams all > over your disk, I could see the disk bandwidth being a bottleneck. > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
