<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Dale Pontius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DEPontius@edgehp.net">DEPontius@edgehp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm putting together a dedicated MythTV front-end machine, and at the<br>
moment am picking the CPU, going through the 45W choices at Newegg.<br>
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Prime Candidates would be the X2 2350, and the single-core 1640. The<br>
former is of course dual-cored, clocked at 1.9GHz, with twin 512k L2.<br>
The latter is clocked at 2.6GHz with 1M L2.<br>
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My current inclination is to go with the latter. While it has less<br>
overall crunching power, it's single-thread execution is likely better,<br>
and I don't know how much a MythTV front-end can really use two cores.<br>
I understand that this is a no-brainer for a back-end, that more cores<br>
is better, but it seems an open question to me for a front-end.<br>
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Incidentally, some of the other hardware - real or planned:<br>
Antec Fusion Veris (silver) case - wife-approved and selected<br>
MSI NX8500GT graphics card - gives me NTSC today, HDMI next year<br>
ASUS M2N68-AM - least embedded graphics currently in-stock<br>
IDE-Compact flash adapter, run /var over NFS - diskless system<br>
2G DDR2 in 2 sticks<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Dale Pontius</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are two data points for you. AMD 5400+ combined frontend-backend works great</div><div>P4 2.4GHz frontend only just barely works for HD and not something I would build from scratch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have no idea how your chips compare to this old chip. Sorry I don't have something closer to what you are looking at.</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div><br></div></div>