Fwd: Re: [mythtv-users] two and one
Pete Hartman
mythtv at elmegil.net
Tue May 13 21:40:19 EDT 2003
>At 01:31 PM 5/13/03 -0700, Cedar wrote:
>>Many people insist on buying pretty expensive hardware for this project.
>>They come to the list hoping for suggestions for $400-500 dollar
>>hardware, then say "by the way, I want it to be powerful enough to drop
>>in a second tuner, be really small, look really good, be quiet, etc etc
>>etc". People want the impossible. Instead how about buying a sub 2Ghz
>>processor, 256 ram, sub 100 gig HD, a cheap software based tuner card,
>>cheap board like an nforce with built in nic, sound, video, and a
>>cheap/ugly/loud case. I know you can do that for well under $500.
>
>I'd be really surprised if such a system performed reasonably well, unless
>it was just barely sub 2Ghz. I priced my hardware for low end and it
>wasn't well enough under $500 for me to justify not going ahead and
>spending the extra money as insurance that when I get it going it will
>actually function as desired.
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