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Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best processor for multimedia?
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Steve Roome wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:08:45PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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> 
> 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..