Hey, I didn't say I was an intel user, just that the general consensus is that for whatever reason the pentiums are better at it.
I'm a happy Athlon 1600 user (not for HD of course) On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:52:56 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:34 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: > > It's not so much that athlons don't have the power, just that for some > > reason pentiums are better at the particular decoding process. > > > > might have something to do with the fact that all of myth is optimised > > for pentiumpro mmx....hmmmm > > And that's the basis of your "Intel is better" idea, even though > Athlons have had MMX capability since Day 1? > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ > > $ for f in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags`; do echo $f; done > flags > : > fpu > vme > [snip] > pat > pse36 > mmx <<<<<<<<<<<< > fxsr > sse > pni > syscall > mmxext <<<<<<<<<<<< > 3dnowext > 3dnow > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson, LA USA > PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. > > When Swedes start committing terrorism, I'll become suspicious of > Scandinavians. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
