[mythtv-users] Surely 2x P3 1Ghz is ENOUGH!!!

[Steve Smith]

Doh... you asked for speed... doh yes it's PC133...

On 10/07/07, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gareth,
>
> Yes I see that. It's an Asus CUV4XDLS motherboard which uses the infamous
> VIA 686 chipset.
> So that means it's ordinary SDRAM with as you say only one path to the
> RAM....
>
> Interesting. I was actually hoping to downgrade to a single processor
> board (an Intel D815EEA) because
> the ASUS implementation of ACPI isn't really any good,  I'm convinced I
> shouldn't need dual processors for SD,
> and I want to cut the electricity bill!
>
> What's your guess, would downgrading actually help matters seeing as
> there'll be no contention on the RAM on a single processor system? (the new
> board is just lying around at the moment...)
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> On 10/07/07, GARETH GLACCUM <gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > What speed is the ram you have? The system you have, although it has two
> > processors, these are going to be limited by the IO. There is only 1 IO path
> > that they can use to get to the RAM. The RAM is a buffer both for the PCI, (
> > and Disk) and processors.
> > Gareth
> >
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