RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

[Bob McGwier]

The intel graphics chip set and northbridge are power hungry.  I think the idea 
is optimize code for the 330 and not the peripherals with this ine

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From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:12 PM
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Cc: Bob McGwier; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

On Monday 29 December 2008 06:53:30 Bob McGwier wrote:
> I am running GnuRadio, SDRMAX, and  PowerSDR on my new Intel ATOM 330 
> MiniITX motherboard.  I had to put a firewire card in the single PCI slot.
> The integrated intel graphics are nice and spiffy (glxgears is at 800 
> fps if you turn off the desktop enhancements, no wiggly windows please).
>
>
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> At 96000 PowerSDR is running under 15% CPU.  The ATOM burns EIGHT 
> watts and has dual hyperthread cores  (shows up as four processors in task 
> manager).

Unfortunately the 945 chipset eats ~20W - god knows why Intel lumbered the Atom 
with it :(

Toms Hardware (and others) did a test of the Atom vs an underclocked Athlon and 
the later won most of the tests

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997-1.html

I think the Atom combo is cheaper and smaller though :)

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