The geek in me say's Ooooh! The realist say's who needs all of that horse power(I must be getting old, thinking about the days before the 1 GHz barrier was broken).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:59 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Intel vs AMD for Myth - dual core.... Hi - I've been using myth for quite a while for standard def, and starting to plan for an HD system. I've been reading the posts, and the general consensus seems to the that (single core) Intel processors have a performance advantage over AMDs. The benchmarks below seem to confirm this It looks like this may change with dual-core processors. The following benchmark compares 4 processors: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (single core) Intel P4 660 (single core) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (dual core) Pentium D840 (dual core) http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_core_athlon-15.html Judging from the benchmarks, it appears that AMD has a performance advantage over Intel once dual-core becomes mainstream (assuming that the encoding performance in these benchmarks will be roughly equivalent to MPEG-2 decoding performance) Guess we'll have to wait until some of us can get our hands on them to know for sure. Just thought I'd throw this out there. Dave _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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