Best processor for multimedia?

[Robert Huff]

Steve Roome writes:

>  On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:08:45PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
>  wrote:
>
>  > Intel Celeron D 335 - 2.8GHz  	CPCELD335  	$134.00
>  > AMD Sempron 3100+ Box Soc754 	CPAS3100 	$157.00
>  > AMD Athlon XP 3000+ BOX BARTON  CPAXPB3000  	$184.00
>  > Intel P4 3.40GHz PRESCOTT 1MB 	CPP43.40HT-PS 	$409.00
>  > Intel P4-660 (3.6GHz)LGA775pin  CPP4-660  	$841.00
>  
>  My attempts to solve slow choppy movies (and in my case games) went
>  like this: (I hope this is helpful in some way.)

	More data for the pile:

	P4/2.25 Ghz
	SCSI LVD-80 disks
	Matrox G450 video card (32 (64 ??) mb)

	-CURRENT from March 29
	Xorg 6.8.2
	latest versions of mplayer and vlc-devel

	System is lightly loaded with many small/intermittant tasks.

	The only time I have problems with choppy playback - disk or
dvd - is when something decides to unpack a large tarball and then
verify the contents.


					Robert Huff