Re: Sagetv gets iPad-iPhone-and iPod Touch Streaming

According to the review conclusion on SPCR, I wouldn’t go with the AMD low power quads.  I would look at the regular athlon x4s compared to the i5.  For video encoding the x4 640 seems to be the better choice as its slightly faster than the i5 650 and i5 661 (based on the benchmarks on anandtech found here [url=http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/117?vs=188]http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/117?vs=188[/url] (benchmarks are for the 635 which is at 2.9GHz, the 640 is slightly faster at 3.0GHz) and its $65 and $110 cheaper respectively at newegg. 

[i]The “E” processors total power consumption during our timed benchmarks was only 10% better than the faster 95W and 125W AMD quad cores, and still a ways off from Intel’s Core i5s. They are slightly more energy efficient when idle, but the difference is too small to make a real impact in the grand scheme of things. In addition, the price premium attached to these processors makes them rather poor values; equivalent or better performance can be found in the ~$100 Athlon II X4 635. From what we can gather, the only real selling point of these CPUs
is the lower operating temperature… but then again, most standard AMD processors undervolt fairly well.[/i]

Full review can be found here [url=http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1054-page6.html]http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1054-page6.html[/url]