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| Author: | Digriz77 [ Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Atom Ion |
Hi, I am looking at getting a Zotac Atom Ion dual core with 2gb ram with 2 usb tuners. It will be a Backend/Frontend that will sit in my lounge. I was hoping then to run 3 more frontends off this machine, 1 (laptop) in kitchen, 1 (appletv through xbmc) in rumpus room and 1 (ps3 via upnp) in the bedroom. Would be doing this with R6 Was wondering if anyone is running a atom ion as a backend/frontend with extra boxes around the house. Couldnt see any on the teirs...lots of frontends though (few people running single core atoms). Would it be to much strain on a 1.6 dual core with all those frontends? |
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| Author: | uteck [ Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:37 am ] |
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I think it would be fine even with all the frontends going, as that is more of a disk I/O issue then CPU power. You could even scrape by with just a 100mb network, but gigabit is just about the same price nowadays, so it's best to future-proof. My backend regularly sits at a little over idle while recording and streaming to 2 frontends (but it is not an Atom system). Commercial skip jobs will be a bit slow on an Atom, so you may want to test how well it preforms that while you are watching stuff, but that is were the advantage of a dual CPU will show as long as you don't allow 2 jobs at once. |
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| Author: | Digriz77 [ Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:15 pm ] |
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Thanks uteck. I only have a 100mb network but am looking at upgrading my modem soon so will look at one with a gigabit network. Thanks for the advice. Dig |
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