[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone using mythtv on Athlon64 system ?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:23:42AM +0200, Maarten wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the replies guys !
> 
> I had to scrap the idea of buying an athlon 64 today as the only CPU in stock 
> was a high-end one and I wasn't prepared to spend upward of $500 on the 
> board-CPU combo. Not without a _very_ significant speed improvement versus my 
> current -by no means slow- athlon 2600+ at least.
> So how fast does it feel in native 64bit mode ?  I've read some horror stories 
> about the athlon 64 speed in a laptop forum where they basically said it 
> 'felt' like a pentium III.  That was not encouraging, even if that was 
> probably just some bug in specific hardware (reportedly ACPI-related).

It feels definitely faster than PIII ;)

> But since I do software-encoding, no PVRx50s here,

Definitely good to have a good FPU then :)

> I'd sure like to know if the eventual upgrade to an athlon 64 is
> worthwhile, both stability- and speed-wise.  It would be awesome to
> be able run two bttv cards at full 720 resolution :-) (yeah, I know
> that may be over-optimistic...)

Not from the processing power I guess, but what about the PCI bus?
Two uncompressed full resolution streams generate a lot of PCI
bandwidth.

> Maarten
> 
> On Friday 15 October 2004 22:23, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 07:55, Maarten wrote:
> > > Due to some hardware failure(s) I'm looking into a new mainboard.
> > > Is mythtv fully compatible with the athlon64 CPU ?  Experiences ?
> > > (planning to use SuSE 9.0 or 9.1)
> >
> > I'm using myth on Athlon64 and I'm very happy with it.
> >
> > Using FC2 and the atrpms, all true 64 bit. The only thing I don't get is
> > MythMusic since it's 32bit only. I get the impression from scanning the
> > dev list that'll be sorted in the not too distant future though.
> >
> > I'm using Nova-T with G550 on a Gigabyte K8T800 uATX board. The
> > processor rarely comes out of 1GHz cool & quiet mode even when watching
> > & recording.
> >
> > Unlike Brad Fuller MythWeather works fine for me.
> >
> >
> > Martin.
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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