[mythtv] [semi-OT] x86_64 support, Semprons, and HD playback

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:58 -0400, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
> Those are not clock speeds, but rather AMD's semi-arbitrary "Processor
> Rating" values.  The Sempron PR values are supposed to compare to
> Celeron clock speeds, and the A64 is rated against the Pentium 4.
> Thus
> you can't compare those two chips on the PR number alone.
> 
> The Athlon 64 2800+ and the Sempron 3100+ happen to be the exact same
> core, running at the *same* 1.8GHz, both on socket 754.  The ONLY
> difference is that the Sempron has half the L2 cache, which hurts you
> a
> bit in memory bandwidth-intensive apps like video processing.
> Definitely go for the A64 3100+.
> 
> Here's a good review I found with some benchmarks:
> http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2170

Whoops, I misread the specs on the Sempron 3100+.  I thought it was 2.0,
not 1.8.  My bad.  I understand the differences between Semprons and
Athlons (:  Hope the info helps somebody else though.

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