[mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?
Tim Tait
t.tait at comcast.net
Mon Aug 2 15:48:32 EDT 2004
Isaac Richards wrote:
>On Monday 02 August 2004 02:53 pm, Tim Tait wrote:
>
>
>>Stephen Tait wrote:
>>
>>
>>>And contrary to my previous opinion, lots of people seem to have no
>>>problems with the CPU on the EPIA's now. They used to suck a bit for
>>>MPEG4 and the like, but seem much better now.
>>>
>>>
>>I believe they doubled the floating point units on the Nehemiah 10000
>>and later cores. This brings them roughly on par with the Pentium
>>floating point. The crippled floating point came from the Cyrix CPU
>>history. I think they also bumped the cache up.
>>
>>
>
>The Nehemiah M-10000 is approximately as fast as a p3-500 for the purposes of
>decoding/encoding video.
>
>Isaac
>
And about 2x faster than the prior C3 version at the same clock speeds.
The floating point was only one bottleneck:)
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