On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:54:42 +0000, Joel B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody looked at > TechReports review of the AOpen XC Cube EY855-II mini-barebones system? > It's based around the Pentium M, and it seems to be exceptionally quiet.
> Other nice features for a frontend are builtin firewire > and optical digital audio inputs and outputs. There's a 4X AGP slot (but > not a very wide one) as well as one PCI slot. The main drawback is the > price of the Pentium M, but the low power consumption of that processor is > also what makes the quietness possible. > > One question I have is whether anybody has used a Pentium M with HDTV. I > have selected fast memory that would be run at DDR333 and is amenable to > overclocking, but would the 1.6 GHz clock part do 1080i > even with overclocking? There's still a steep price ramp to the 2GHz > Pentium M 2Ghz at $435. Also, will the fanless 64-bit FX5200's do 1080i? I have also been considering using an 855GM or 915GM chipset based Pentium M arrangement. The later has dual-channel DDR, PCIe, and integrated TVout (including component HD). However I don't know how well either of them are supported under Linux. Anyone using a "Centrino" system with a non-Windows operating system? I expect the 915GM is too bleeding edge. With regards to horse-power, the 1.6 PentiumM is similar in performance to a 2.4 Ghz P4. The 1.8 version (dothan has a larger cache) might be a good compromise between 1.6 and 2.0. Right now I am using an 865 based system. My CPU and powersupply are quiet enough (~22db), but the drives make more noise than I would like. Although the FX5200 should be able to drive 1080i, getting it to work has been troublesome for many. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
