[mythtv-users] nVidia ION motherboards - Single- or Dual-Core?
Phil Bridges
gravityhammer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 19:12:58 UTC 2009
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The wife and I are planning on getting a large (most-likely 1080P)
>> flatscreen for ourselves for Christmas. Rather than add a full-sized
>> frontend, I'd like to try net-booting one of the ION boards. I'd like
>> it to be as quiet as possible, so I'm leaning towards the fanless
>> single-core. Does the extra horsepower of the dual-core model get
>> utilized under Myth?
>
> As a frontend, no. With VDPAU, a single core Atom is more than enough.
>
> Kevin
Thanks for the response. Looks like I'll save some cash and go for
the single-core.
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