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RE: Now HTPCs, was Kaleidescape movie server


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  • Subject: RE: Now HTPCs, was Kaleidescape movie server
  • From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:51:43 -0000
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Just one word of caution on the Via epia stuff. The C3 processors are a
little light horsepower wise. If for example you would be using any cpu
intensive stuff eg audio transcoding then you may want to consider a
beefier
cpu. On my 800Mhz epia machine which ran my SliMP3 server - when I ran
'Lame' to transcode mp3's my cpu usage was maxed at 98% and I was getting
glitches in the stream. A 2 GHz P4 runs this at 30% CPU usage and no
glitches.   C3 is not supported by some software too eg Vmware - but then
the C3 is not intended for that market either.

Kevin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Dhokia [mailto:pankaj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 January 2004 14:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Now HTPCs, was Kaleidescape movie server
>
> > Yup...
>
> cool. what spec HTPC do you guy recommend? Would a Via
> Epia (800mHz, 256MB) do? Guess I'll need to add a sound
> card with 5.1 but is the GFX out ok?
>



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