[mythtv-users] AMD Sempron 3000+ and HDTV

[Matt Mossholder]

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:21 -0700, Mark Lehrer wrote:
> > I'm looking at a great deal on an nForce 3 Socket 754 Motherboard
> > and AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.80GHz processor.  What I'm wondering is will
> > that be enough horsepower to run HDTV in 1080i with no graphics
> > hardware acceleration?
> >
> > If anyone is successfully viewing HDTV content on a similar equipped
> > system without XvMC please let me know and I'll buy this
> > motherboard/cpu combo.
> 
> I STRONGLY recommend getting a dual core CPU.  You may be able to get
> it to work, but I had no luck with a 3500+ - just enough dropped
> frames to make sports or anything that is truly 60 fields/sec be too
> annoying to watch.  My x2 3800 works wonderfully.
> 
> YMMV of course, some people have been able to make it work.  You
> would probably never notice a problem with 24 fps shows like movies
> or prime time TV.
> 
> Mark

I suspect that the reason most of the Semprons have problems with HD is
the size of the L2 cache... 128/256K just doesn't cut it.  I moved from
a Sempron 3200 to a Socket 754 Athlon 3400 with 1MB of cache, and there
is a world of difference...


		--Matt