[mythtv-users] What is a "dual core processor"?
Marc Barrett
mnealbarrett at cox.net
Thu Dec 4 12:44:04 UTC 2008
For the purpose of fitting the requirements for playing back files from
a Hauppauge HD-PVR. Today, perhaps the quintessential "dual core"
processor is the "Core 2 Duo", and that is the one that most people with
HD-PVR's are probably using. But there are others, and I have not
kept up with new processors very well. (My systems all use Pentium 4s)
There are older processors which are still technically "dual core", and I was
wondering if they would work. There is the Pentium D, and the "Pentium
Dual Core". As well as many processors from AMD, but I admit that I know
very little about AMD. Which of these older "dual core" processor lines
would work, and how fast of a system would I need? For example, I saw
a Pentium D system at 3Ghz on Dell's outlet site for under $300. The
cheapest "Core 2 Duo" is about $400, for a 1.8Ghz system.
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