[mythtv-users] Which Intel chipset?

John Andrunas john at andrunas.net
Fri Sep 5 18:26:49 UTC 2008


I recognize that, my workstation is an AM2, that runs nice and cool, but I
am really just curious at this point about the intel hardware.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:29 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I have been considering that also, I mostly wanted to try and intel build
> > just as a comparison.
> > --
>
> I don't have much experience there but I do have > 20 AM2 chips here
> at work. For power consumption I believe it depends on how high end
> you want to go. AMD is very good in the low to medium end in power
> consumption and price but bad in the high end. And with CPU power
> consumption you should note that AMD chips have the northbridge
> (memory controller ...) on the CPU which in Intel's case this is on
> the motherboard. So an Intel CPU that takes 7 to 10W less than an
> equivalent AMD CPU in effect is using the same power.
>
> John
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John
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