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<A title=scourched@gmail.com href="mailto:scourched@gmail.com">Justin
Bracken</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mythtv-users@mythtv.org
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [mythtv-users] Is this system
just too old?</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello all,</DIV>
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<DIV>Here are the specifications on my computer. This is a frontend only
computer. Some of the playback seems problematic. Is this system too old/too
slow for HD playback?</DIV>
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<DIV>processor<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 0</DIV>
<DIV>vendor_id<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: GenuineIntel</DIV>
<DIV>cpu family<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 15</DIV>
<DIV>model<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 1</DIV>
<DIV>model name<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz</DIV>
<DIV>stepping<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 2</DIV>
<DIV>cpu MHz<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 1603.625</DIV>
<DIV>cache size<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 256 KB</DIV>
<DIV>fdiv_bug<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: no</DIV>
<DIV>hlt_bug<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: no</DIV>
<DIV>f00f_bug<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: no</DIV>
<DIV>coma_bug<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: no</DIV>
<DIV>fpu<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: yes</DIV>
<DIV>fpu_exception<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: yes</DIV>
<DIV>cpuid level<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 2</DIV>
<DIV>wp<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: yes</DIV>
<DIV>flags<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: fpu vme de pse tsc msr
pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse
sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts</DIV>
<DIV>bogomips<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 3207.25</DIV>
<DIV>clflush size<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 64</DIV>
<DIV>cache_alignment<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 128</DIV>
<DIV>address sizes<SPAN style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"> </SPAN>: 36 bits
physical, 32 bits virtual</DIV>
<DIV>power management:</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>MemTotal: 1026384 kB</DIV>
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<DIV>It meets the miniumum specifications found here:</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/requirements">http://www.mythbuntu.org/requirements</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>What should I tweak? I have no tuner card in this machine so its all cpu
power for playback.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for any help you can provide!</DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>If your motherboard is compatible with the NVIDIA vdpau
PCI video cards and will support the PCI current load (P4 should) then its not
too old for HD. It would be fine as a HD frontend and would be slow
comflagging as a BE but I expect would also work fine as a BE esp if not
commflagging.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>