Steve Adeff wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2006 14:31, Michael T. Dean wrote: > >> Steve Adeff wrote: >> >>> the socket 754 doesn't give much upgrade options, which may or may not >>> bother you. Everything else looks fine. 1080p playback should be fine >>> too. >>> >> Buying for upgrade is a bad choice, IMHO. Even if you buy a 939-pin >> processor right now, unless you buy an upgrade processor really soon, >> you'll have missed out because AMD is switching to socket M2 (the >> 940-pin dual-channel memory capable socket) this year. Since you can't >> buy socket M2 motherboards/CPU's now, what's the point in buying a >> 939-pin for "upgrade options?" >> >> Besides, when it comes time to "upgrade," you're usually better off >> buying a new system, anyway. Think of all the pieces of the computer >> that change on varying schedules--case/power supply style (AT/ATX/BTU--I >> mean BTX ;), RAM (DRAM (in all its versions)/SDR SDRAM/RDRAM/DDR >> SDRAM/DDR2 SDRAM/XDR), buses (EISA/PCI/PCI-E and VLB/AGP 3.3v/AGP 1.5v >> and IDE/EIDE/SATA not to mention AMR/ACR/CNR), and we've already >> mentioned processor sockets. And, the examples are just the ones that >> have already changed--no future versions are listed. >> > true, but even with M2, I'd be perfectly happy purchasing an Athlon64 X2 in a > year for cheap to put in the 939 socket and using it as a remote > frontend/mythcommflag machine. I don't see my use of MythTV requiring more > CPU than what is currently needed for HD playback for quite a while, Think MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) on HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray... Takes more CPU than is currently available.
> so I'd > be happy with getting whatever the fastest processer is that can fit in 939 > while they're still cheap. > > Granted, for a gaming machine, I'd agree with you, but for a dedicated MythTV > machine, I don't see requirements increasing for a while. > > And that's a valid opinion, but one which differs from mine. :) Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users