I demand that Guido Fiala may or may not have written... > On Saturday 26 February 2005 14:05, Carsten Koch wrote: > > Craig Sanders wrote: >>> the main things i'm not sure about are: >>> - what CPU to get? >>> i'm tempted by an athlon 64, but then i'd have to start mirroring the >>> a64 distribution of debian as well as the i386, and i'm generally not >>> keen to pay a price premium to be a guinea-pig for new hardware....a64 >>> and a64 motherboard designs probably won't be mature for another year >>> or so. >>> other alternatives P4 or and Athlon, with the athlon being slightly >>> cheaper. >> VDR works happily with a 150MHz CPU if you have a full-featured card or >> with under 1 GHz if you don't. At least here in Germany the best price per >> GHz according to >> http://www.geizhals.net/deutschland/?cat=cpuk7sa&sort=r >> is an AMD Duron 1800Mhz, which should be more than adequate. Bus speed's also relevant. Presumably, that one requires something faster than 233MHz (which is what I'm using). >> The only function you can always speed up with a faster CPU is re/encoding >> for DVD burning, but unless you do that several times a day, I would not >> spend extra money for a few minutes less wait time. > IMHO you need to correct your number by the price of electrical energy > according to the calculation power per watt - i guess mobile CPU/system's > will then have the nose in front, in just one year the amount of saved > energy easily returns the investment for the slightly higher price of the > cpu. That and switching on power-saving features whatever you're using. For that Duron, I suggest installing athcool (you'll need ACPI). > Guido (trying to safe the planet ;-) s/safe/save/, unless you're trying to verb an adjective in trying to make it less dangerous ;-) -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Descartes of Borg: "I assimilate, therefore I am."
