<DIV>There's a nice article on Tom's Hardware Guide about the Celeron 2.0 (the fastest when the article was written). They hated it for 3D games because the performance was so far behind the same-cost Athlons, but found that video and audio processing is dominated by clock speed and therefore the Celerons did quite well. The bottom line is that you should be fine, and the same-speed Pentium should be significantly but not hugely better.<BR><BR><B><I>Michael Peay <mythtv@peay.us></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">You probably have some other performance issue. I just built a pundit <BR>with a 2.4GHz Celeron. When recording 480x480 MPEG4 with increased <BR>quality settings from default AND playback of pre-recorded show I have <BR>55-60% idle. I also have to BT tuners and can record both without <BR>noticed (yet) drops. I haven't tried playing a show while recording <BR>two, but should be able to since playback only takes 3-5% CPU.<BR><BR>--Mike<BR><BR>On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 08:59 PM, Joe Byrne wrote:<BR><BR>> I have a Celeron 2.4GHz. I'm not entirely happy with it. For live TV <BR>> from<BR>> a Winfast 2000 encoded w/ MPEG-4, I dialed the resolution to either <BR>> 240x480<BR>> or 320x480. Average CPU utilization (eyeballing the output of top) <BR>> wasn't<BR>> too bad at 480x480, but there was the occasional glitch. Lower res has<BR>> helped a fair bit. I'd
like to have a P4/2.4 to compare against. W/<BR>> double the cache and 1/3 more FSB and memory i/o, it should be better.<BR>><BR>> I'm running on RH9 w/ the RH9 packages.<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: "John Wells" <JB@SOURCEILLUSTRATED.COM><BR>> To: <MYTHTV-USERS@MYTHTV.ORG><BR>> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:59 AM<BR>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Celeron processors with MythTV<BR>><BR>><BR>>> I'm building a mythtv box with the following tuner cards:<BR>>><BR>>> ATI TV-wonder Stereo (no hardware encoding/decoding)<BR>>> Hauppauge PVR-250 (hardware encoding/decoding)<BR>>><BR>>> Would a Celeron 2.0 Ghz provide enough muscle to run these tuners, and<BR>>> still leave a bit left over for other functions (i.e., surfing the <BR>>> web,<BR>>> etc.)? Are there any caveats to going with the Celeron line? (i.e., <BR>>> run<BR>>> hotter, etc)<BR>>><BR>>> Also,
if I did indeed go with the Celeron 2.0 ghz, would 256 mb of <BR>>> memory<BR>>> suffice, or would I need to go higher?<BR>>><BR>>> Thanks for the help guys! I'm almost there.... ;-)<BR>>><BR>>> John<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing list<BR>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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