Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:54:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Steve Roome <steve@pepcross.com> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best processor for multimedia? Message-ID: <42CEAFCE.4070204@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050708091745.GA2544@bibipentium.lonres.com> References: <20050708053845.GL19707@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050708091745.GA2544@bibipentium.lonres.com>
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Steve Roome wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:08:45PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > I figured that a 400MHz FSB Athlon 3200+ would be the best bet partly > by looking at this image: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/images/cpu_table_amd_big.gif > > and partly because if you have a socket A that will take it then it's > the obvious choice. > One thing this list doesn't give is watts in normal operation. remember if you are making a "home TIVO" or similar you probably don't wany a hurricane of fans running, and if you add record capability with mythTV or something it has to sit quietly in teh corner turned on all day..
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