<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Forde</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@duckland.org">ian@duckland.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd go with the Athlon 64 X2 3600+. I'm playing back 1080i and 720p<br>(admittedly downscaled for now) just fine on my Athlon 64 3200+. The<br>2nd core would definitely help for commflagging more than the slightly
<br>higher rating would...<br><br> -I<br><br>On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:06 -0400, Daniel Agar wrote:<br>> I know this question is asked over and over again but I'm a little unclear<br>> if a dual core cpu would be better for this case. So is a single core cpu
<br>> with a higher "rating" actually faster than a dual core cpu with a lower<br>> rating?<br>> Which would I be better off with playing back and commflagging 720p and<br>> 1080i from firewire.<br>> AMD Athlon 64 3800+ or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
<br>><br>> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.<br>><br>> Daniel<br>></blockquote><div><br>I'm currently running with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ for broadcast HDTV playback. Having the second core available for commflagging is nice as during HD playback, Xorg keeps one core between 90 and 100%.
<br><br>Unfortunately there are too many boldface "?" on the wiki page to know for sure if this is the performance one should expect for this CPU. However the strange thing is that I see no difference using XvMC or not. I have an Nvidia 6200 using the proprietary nvidia drivers (see the nvidia logo during login). So my results may not be "typical".
<br><br>I'm using a DFI Infinity NF Ultra II M2 motherboard. Would overclocking be an option<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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