[geeks] Athlon 64 X2 3800+

[Mark]

On 21 Jun 2007, at 22:23, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> 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.

I bought in a Optiplex 740 at work (same CPU, 1GB RAM, XP Pro) for  
light office work (overkill, I know, but Dell wanted to sell me a  
Pentium D for just under that same price - yyeeeeuucchhh!) and I have  
to say, combined with a 80GB Western Digital SATAII disk, it's  
impressively fast for such a cheap box.

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