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<blockquote data-quote="Tinyputers" data-source="post: 420591" data-attributes="member: 91813"><p><strong>Atom processors</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the help here. An article I found stated that the ION performance watching 1080p was fine, but when using VMC media browser it was painfully slow navigating through lists:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562&p=4" target="_blank">AnandTech: Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board</a></p><p></p><p>On the following page they have a comparsion against a P4 2.66 which is rather interesting. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562&p=5" target="_blank">AnandTech: Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board</a></p><p></p><p>At the moment I think there are only two contenters for the Client MB, both produced by Zotac. The first, which as long as MP is not going to be painfully slow when navigating, is the preferred. </p><p></p><p>- Zotac 9400 ION ITX (Atom 330)</p><p>- Zotac 9300 ITX (775 Socket board)</p><p>- Intel DG45FC (775 Socket board)</p><p></p><p>The second one utilitises a very similar setup to the ION as far as off loading x264 decoding onto stream processors (and off the cpu), with the advantage of being able to install as Core2Duo as the cpu. My concern is that this will mean far higher power consumption, up from ~35W to ~90W. The Intel board, although it does not have the CUDA technology, can handle the work through the processor, with the same power issues are the 9300. </p><p></p><p>If I have to compromise, it would be usability over watts, but hopefully your tests will show that the Atom would be able to handle this.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas on what the server load is when recording (and also when streaming)? </p><p></p><p>If I am forced to go over the power limitations on the client (60Ws) then I am considering creating one of the clients running the tv/media server as well. That way I can allow the Server/Client to consume up to 170W with a beefy quad core running in a Zotac 9300 ITX (with a blackgold 3540 in the pci slot), leaving the other client 100W to .</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p><p></p><p>In support of the ION platform, I did discover this:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMR6W5xFcYo&feature=related" target="_blank">YouTube - NVIDIA Ion Complex Loading</a></p><p></p><p>It shows two videos playing at the same time, both running smoothly on the ION platform running a single core Atom 230. I am swaying towards this platform.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tinyputers, post: 420591, member: 91813"] [b]Atom processors[/b] Thanks for the help here. An article I found stated that the ION performance watching 1080p was fine, but when using VMC media browser it was painfully slow navigating through lists: [url=http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562&p=4]AnandTech: Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board[/url] On the following page they have a comparsion against a P4 2.66 which is rather interesting. [url=http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562&p=5]AnandTech: Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board[/url] At the moment I think there are only two contenters for the Client MB, both produced by Zotac. The first, which as long as MP is not going to be painfully slow when navigating, is the preferred. - Zotac 9400 ION ITX (Atom 330) - Zotac 9300 ITX (775 Socket board) - Intel DG45FC (775 Socket board) The second one utilitises a very similar setup to the ION as far as off loading x264 decoding onto stream processors (and off the cpu), with the advantage of being able to install as Core2Duo as the cpu. My concern is that this will mean far higher power consumption, up from ~35W to ~90W. The Intel board, although it does not have the CUDA technology, can handle the work through the processor, with the same power issues are the 9300. If I have to compromise, it would be usability over watts, but hopefully your tests will show that the Atom would be able to handle this. Any ideas on what the server load is when recording (and also when streaming)? If I am forced to go over the power limitations on the client (60Ws) then I am considering creating one of the clients running the tv/media server as well. That way I can allow the Server/Client to consume up to 170W with a beefy quad core running in a Zotac 9300 ITX (with a blackgold 3540 in the pci slot), leaving the other client 100W to . Thoughts? In support of the ION platform, I did discover this: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMR6W5xFcYo&feature=related]YouTube - NVIDIA Ion Complex Loading[/url] It shows two videos playing at the same time, both running smoothly on the ION platform running a single core Atom 230. I am swaying towards this platform. [/QUOTE]
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