Ongoing How fast CPU have your Media Portal HTPC? (1 Viewer)

[knutinh]

In my "office" Pc I have an AMD athlon64 3000 "Venice" with a Zalman cnps 7000 Cu, connected to speedfan. I notice that most of the time the fan stops completely =)

In my HTPC I have an old Intel p4 2.8GHz Northwood with a large Thermaltake XP120 using a PAPST 4412 2GLL 120mm ultra-lowspeed fan.

regards
knut

 

[Sy[N]tH]

CPU speed...

I'm running an A64 3000+ overclocked to 2ghz, all cooled with a zalman CNPS7000 copper cooler... Overkill for an HTPC yes, but when I plug in my logitech controller and play NFS:U or Prince of Persia, the horsepower helps

By the way, I don't have a HD ready TV nor HD television service so the cpu is more than enough for now.

 

[NLS]

My 2.6GHz P4 (with 2GB of 400MHz DDR HT RAM), sucks and I would like more HP... You see I use it on a 1920x1080@50 (PAL country here) native panel and everything needs enough power to go on...

 

[Pizbit]

AMD 3700+ 2.2ghz

 

[natrlhy]

AMD 3800+ AM2 (2.0ghz dual core)

 

[jmphx]

Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester, on MSI K8NGM2-NBP. OC'd to 2250mhz (250*9), which is max for this motherboard. stock voltage.

So far, I've been able to do all of the following w/ mediaportal, no problem:

- plays 1080i and 1080p (yes, i have 1 1080p movie) in mpeg2 .ts just fine
- plays dvd's, upscale w/ ffdshow to 1440x960 (lanczos 4, and blur/NR)
- plays 720p h.264 (ffdshow/libavcodec decoder) just fine up to about 7-8mbit. any higher and it gets choppy. (can't do 1080i or 1080p h.264, it gets choppy, even at 3mbit, IIRC)
- plays mp3s (duh)
- I don't do any TV capture with this HTPC, so can't comment on that

 

[m.standish]

Athlon XP 2600, Watercooled & Overclocked To 2410 Mhz (approx 3200xp?)
1gb ddr333

Only run it at that so i can game off it too

Radeon 9800 Underclocked 329/273!!!! when 2d, Overclocked to 420/369 when 3d (also watercooled)

 

[m.standish]

knutinh
Ive got 18,000 tracks in the DB (114Gb) not including the 30gb ive not tagged yet ( and even when im listing ALL songs im onkly waiting 10/15 seconds.
Usually list by albums and its about a 5s lag for 980 items.
If your using it primerially for mp3s have you thought about copying the DB to a ramdrive on boot and changing the path to the DB, would have thought that will speed it up, **** could cause problems though! """" not tried it yet

Be interesting to find out if anyone can beat my 26,000 mp3`s

 

[Micke_L]

Waiting for a Abit IL9 motherboard to use my Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 512Mb DDR667 RAM

'til then I still use a P4 2.8Ghz Prescott and 1024Mb DDR400 RAM

Upgrading so I can play hi-res games etc. on it without lag later when I get the cash to get a 40" LCD or Plasma :/.

 

[lampie]

Core2duo E6300 1,83GHz @ 2.7GHz
4x 320 Gb Raid 5
2x 250 JBOD
6600GT 128MB
Zalman Reserator 1+ watercooled (GPU and CPU)
Northbridge is also silent (no active cooler)
530W powersupply


1080P X264 == 15% proc load

Vroemmm...