-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/08 21:41, Bob wrote: > Unbuffered / Registered obviously. > > I'm building a couple of Debian / MythTV based home media players / > servers and want low power consumption and noise, at the moment I'm > leaning towards > > CPU 45W Dual Core Athlon > Motherboard ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI > RAM 4GB DDR2 ECC RAM as fast as I can find [0]
Why ECC? > GPU Radeon X800, X1900, X1950 [1] or on-board [2] Why not nvdia? > HDD (system) Toshiba MK8037GSX or some other SATA laptop drive > HDD (Data) Western Digital 1TB Green Power or the Samsung ITB F1 > and some DVB-C card > > The ASUS boards are the only ones I can find with the traces / BIOS > support for ECC RAM but this one doesn't have FireWire on-board which > I'd like, can anyone suggest another mATX system with USB2, SATA2, ATA, > FireWire, Digital sound IO and ECC RAM support that would meet my > requirements? [3] > > Does anyone know weather an Athlon X2 4850e (2500MHz) or Athlon X2 > BE-2400 (2300MHz) (both 45W ) is going to be capable of decoding H.264 > 1080p in Blu-ray quality? [5] It'll have the oomph, but as you mentioned in your footnotes, might not have the software to decode it, > How about when we get IDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) and MC > (Motion Compensation) video acceleration in RadeonHD? > > Thanks for any help. > > > [0] at the moment the fastest ECC sticks I can find are DDR2-800, I > can't find any 1066s and would like some headroom > > [1] I haven't decided which GPU to go for, I'll have to do more research > into how well R500 and R600 GPU are handling video playback at the > moment, I have a feeling that for simplicity I may have to get an R400 > GPU as an interim measure and then when RadeonHD matures a bit I'll > switch to either the On-Board or an R500 based discreet card [4] > > [2] for the first time in my life I'm considering on-board graphics,of > the 780G chipset. > > [3] not necessarily AMD but preferably > > [4] Because the R600 Unified Video Decoder (UVD) has integrated DRM > we'll probably never get access to it, in which case any > hardware-assisted video decoding the Linux world sees will be in the > same form as the R500 stuff, I'm unsure weather this will mean that > R500s will ultimately be "better" than R600 but I suspect they'll be the > same, either way for Home Theater PCs I'd really like someone to start > putting Mobility Radeon GPUs on PCIe cards. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=955&num=1 > > [5] up to 40Mbit/s, probably not is my feeling from reading round, I > think an X2 6000+ (3000 MHz) at 89W or 125W can just do it. > > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIFuokS9HxQb37XmcRAjv6AKDCzOL/+dWulnb+b3HNNu5IF03SfACgu7Z0 Naf9jCX58MKNuma/4TfgnxQ= =I529 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
