[geeks] Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 16:23:03 CDT 2007


I have this box I built to play around with, which contains the above 
processor.  Admittedly, it's fairly low-end as these boxes go.  Cheap 
Taiwanese motherboard, etc.

Well, a few days ago, I decided to splurge and bought myself a Blu-Ray 
burner.  I am pleased to report that using only the software decoder, my 
box can decode a Blu-Ray movie in 1080p using only just under 1/2 of one 
processor core!  I am tremendously pleased.

Peace...  Sridhar



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