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<p class=MsoNormal>It took me a little while to find this, it was an email I sent
to MarcT off-list. <br>
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I bought the <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330</span>
dual-core. It's got 4Gig of RAM and no hard-drive (I'm net-booting). <br>
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Here's the excerpt that includes some details. <o:p></o:p></p>
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At present, I'm still using the QT painter with .21, so YMMV.<br>
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I expect the 230 would be plenty of power. Honestly, I'd have probably
gotten one of those instead, but they were out of stock (and Newegg was
predicting over a week before they might get back in stock). I had a
short window to get it set up, so had to go with the more expensive model.<br>
<br>
As far as numbers go, cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 4 'processors' (0-3). When
playing Two and a Half Men HD, top shows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>top - 01:12:19 up 5:04, 1 user, load
average: 1.32, 1.08, 0.63<br>
Tasks: 84 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0
stopped, 0 zombie<br>
Cpu(s): 31.7%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 65.6%id, 0.1%wa,
0.4%hi, 1.4%si, 0.0%st<br>
Mem: 3347068k total, 626036k used, 2721032k
free, 0k buffers<br>
Swap: 0k
total, 0k
used, 0k free, 279740k
cached<br>
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PID USER PR NI VIRT
RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br>
5240 mythtv 20 0 765m 375m 127m
S 121 11.5 87:47.70 mythfrontend<br>
5227 root 20 0 447m 116m
106m S 12 3.6 7:10.36 X<br>
5536 root 20 0 18952 1344 1008
R 0 0.0 0:00.39 top<br>
1 root 20 0
3812 612 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.72
init<br>
2 root 15
-5 0 0 0
S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd<br>
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So, about 30% total usage over 4 'processors'. which should translate to about
60% of a single processor 230. (This is software decoding, mind you.)<br>
<br>
Once you throw VDPAU into the mix, I have no doubt a 230 will work fine. <br>
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<br>
Hope that gives a little more detail,<br>
<br>
--PhillW<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I would like to add to this, I am using a –c-u, works great with
the exception of a minute pause sometimes when playing back HD using VDPAU. I
spoke to one of the Devs about this and was instructed to try a few things but
the machine is off and unable to be used at the moment as I am in the process
of moving. It might just be a configuration issue, but some others have
reported the same thing with ION’s in general. So this is not an IONITX
specific issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>MarcT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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