Low-power HTPC etc

VDR User user.vdr at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 02:46:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
>  > > Well, the Atom N330 has a TDP of only 8 W, which isn't
>  > > that bad for a 1.6 GHz 64bit 4-way processor (2 cores +
>  > > hyperthreading).
>  > >
>  > > Of course, ARM processors may certainly have even better
>  > > performance/watt ratio.  But I think I stay with i386-
>  > > compatible hardware for my particular case.
>  >
>  > Btw there's also the Celeron SU2300 which has a TDP of 10 W and is
>  > about twice as fast as the N330 Atom as you can see e.g. here:
>  >
>  >    http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
>
> Interesting page.  But I think that the benchmarks need to
> be taken with a grain of salt.  For example, the SU2300
> seems to be twice as fast only in the single-threaded
> benchmarks.  In the multi-threaded benchmarks, the SU2300
> is only a little faster (10 - 20 percent).
>
> The Atom will be more than enough for me.  There are several
> fanless (!) mainboards with a dual-core Atom (330 or D525)
> that have the ION chipset with full-HD MPEG acceleration
> via VDPAU.  I'll probably combine that with an SSD in order
> to get a completely silent system without any moving parts.

I have a couple atom/ion boxes which I use for dedicated htpc/hdtv.
Works great.  I didn't even bother with an ssd due to price vs. needs.
 Instead they're installed on sdhc cards.  No probs what-so-ever.


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