4 Dec
2007
4 Dec
'07
11 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 21:39, David Olofson wrote:
Be warned though; those VIA Cx and AMD Geode CPUs
found on most
fan-less boards aren't anything like workstation CPUs. Incredible
power *per Watt* - but you'd need to run one at several GHz to get
anywhere near the slowest Socket 775 Celeron you can find.
I was running the Vaz analog synth simulator and some Yamaha or Roland
software GM synth on a Pentium 100 almost a decade ago. The Via and
Geode chips are pretty weak, and I'm sure Jack and various Linux
background tasks add some overhead, but is Fluidsynth really that
much more CPU-intensive?
And for what it's worth, you can get micro-ATX boards that take
Celerons and Athlons. I'd stay away from that Via stuff myself if I
were doing anything other than a web surfing terminal.
Rob