[mythtv-users] silent and low-power: AMD or Intel?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

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On 28/05/2009, at 10:20 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The external bus stays the same speed with an AMD chip. The internal
> clock and the voltage the processor uses both reduce however.
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Really?

Because it was found that VDPAU didn't work properly if the processor  
speed was slowed down too much with AMD processor

Explanation for nvidia folks was that the external bus was slowed down  
to much to allow proper flow of traffic of data between the processor  
and the video card.