[ILUG] Build your own MP3 player?

Glen Gray glen at antefacto.com
Tue Nov 20 15:17:15 GMT 2001


On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 15:00, John P. Looney wrote:
>  The TM5600 is a little dogdy - it'll go well over 55C running Seti at home
> etc., and often, it's about half the speed of a C3, clock for clock
> (depending on what you are doing). You would be better off going for a C3,
> and just clocking it back to a 66Mhz bus (1/3 the speed, under half the
> heat).
> 
Probably not, we've got the older TM5400 chip which is a bit crap for
anything other than a web pad.

>  With a decent video chipset (something that'll do hardware scaling at
> least), a C3 should be more than sufficent. I'd trust it so much more than
> a transmeta chip...
> 
True, true.
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