On Tuesday 04 December 2007 21:39, David Olofson wrote: > Be warned though; those VIA Cx and AMD Geode CPUs found on most > fan-less boards aren't anything like workstation CPUs. Incredible > power *per Watt* - but you'd need to run one at several GHz to get > anywhere near the slowest Socket 775 Celeron you can find. I was running the Vaz analog synth simulator and some Yamaha or Roland software GM synth on a Pentium 100 almost a decade ago. The Via and Geode chips are pretty weak, and I'm sure Jack and various Linux background tasks add some overhead, but is Fluidsynth really that much more CPU-intensive? And for what it's worth, you can get micro-ATX boards that take Celerons and Athlons. I'd stay away from that Via stuff myself if I were doing anything other than a web surfing terminal. Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
