[mythtv-users] nVidia ION motherboards - Single- or Dual-Core?
david
david at functionalchaos.net
Tue Oct 20 20:38:16 UTC 2009
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:06:03 -0500, 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 feedback, I am interested in this information as well. How
about Hulu and Hulu Desktop? Do they work well on the atom single or dual
core frontends?
David
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