[mythtv-users] Dual or Single core Athlon64 for MythTV front-end machine

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Dale Pontius <DEPontius at edgehp.net> wrote:
> I'm putting together a dedicated MythTV front-end machine, and at the
> moment am picking the CPU, going through the 45W choices at Newegg.
>
> Prime Candidates would be the X2 2350, and the single-core 1640.  The
> former is of course dual-cored, clocked at 1.9GHz, with twin 512k L2.
> The latter is clocked at 2.6GHz with 1M L2.
>

I would get a dual core 65W processor. When powernow running and the
machine is at idle the difference between a 45W chip and a 65W chip is
not that much. I mean but will draw around 20W at 1GHz.

John