<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Javier Perez</b> <<a href="mailto:pepebuho@gmail.com">pepebuho@gmail.com</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;">
<div><span class="e" id="q_115124a858c34ed7_0"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Fishburn</b> <<a href="mailto:dfishburn.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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On 9/16/07, Javier Perez <<a href="mailto:pepebuho@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pepebuho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have an Asus M2NPV-VM Motherboard with 1GB Ram and an AMD 64 3500 cpu
<br><br><br>I have the same motherboard and CPU.
<br><br>Currently, I am only running SD, but I am considering buying a new<br>television and that would entail getting some HD content.<br><br>I was transcoding movies yesterday at it takes my machine 2 hours to<br>transcode a 2 hour show. I thought it has to do it at the playback
<br>speed in order to match the audio to the video. The other post on<br>this thread indicates it was taking 15 minutes for a 1 hour show (ah,<br>I guess that was just for commflagging, not transcoding).<br><br>How much are the new X2 chips and what does it involve putting in a
<br>faster CPU to the MO? Does it have to be soldered? Does it just clip<br>in? Do any OS changes have to happen? I am running Ubuntu Edgy.<br><br>TIA,<br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>As far as I understand, you just unplug the old CPU from the socket and plug-in the new<br>CPU. Nothing more should change. <br><br>I think, I would have to verify it, that Linux will automatically pick up the change in CPU next
<br>time that it reboots. If there is any additional optimization to do to make Linux use both cores<br>to the max I do not know yet.<br><span class="sg"><br>JP</span></blockquote><div><br>Are you guys sure that just dropping in a new CPU is enough? Won't you need an SMP kernel to use the second core? In the Windows world Windows will usually detect a second CPU and install an SMP HAL (At least it does in Win2K3 Server). Will Linux do the same or is it a more manual process?
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