[mythtv-users] Athlon X2 BE2300 ok for HDTV?

Henry A Harper III hah at alumni.rice.edu
Fri Nov 23 16:04:44 UTC 2007


> Well, that confirms what I was thinking: That the cpu is on the
> lower end of
> the spectrum. I may give it a try though and report back to the list :)

I replaced a 4600 (65W) with a BE-2350, and it works well for the most part.
There are occasional NVP prebuffering pauses, a few more than the 4600 had,
and I can't play 1080i content at 1.2x like I could with the 4600 - 720p
does 1.2x fine. I would like a BE-2400, 200MHz faster, but that's another
$100 and I would have a spare CPU sitting around after I swap the 2350 for
the 4200 (65W) in my windoze box. Already sold the 4600 to a friend. And now
I am "afraid" that there will be a BE-2450 or BE-2500 if I buy a BE-2400,
since the BE-2400 wasn't out when I got the 2350. For now I'll live with it.



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