[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

[Pierre-Olivier Bouchard]

Ray Olszewski wrote:

> Interesting. So do you think my considerably higher numbers (even 
> allowing for the CPU difference, I think) indicate some sort of 
> configuration error? If so ... any thoughts on the candidate? Or are 
> Celerons really that mush worse than Athlons? Or is Myth optimized for 
> Athlons in some subtle way?

I don't think Myth is optimized for Athlons, only the 1.7Ghz Celeron is 
a (relatively) crappy CPU for it's price and time - it's lack of cache 
is killing it, a P3-based 1.3Ghz Celeron can mostly keep up with it, as 
does a Duron 1.3Ghz.

The 1.7Ghz Celeron is not very efficient, that's all... Nearly as bad as 
when the L2-cache-less celerons 266 and 300 Mhz got out - and those were 
bad!


Pete