[mythtv-users] Box I'm building

Tue May 27 21:38:38 EDT 2003

Daniel Jimenez wrote:
> All,   Sorry for the flood of emails, I'm very excited about MythTV and 
> cannot wait to get started. Here is the box I'm building, could anyone 
> comment on it? (This will be front end and back end)   AMD Athlon XP 
> 2500+ (333) 512 MB PC2700 Elixar Ram ABIT AT7-MAX 2 Serial ATA 150 
> Segate Baracuda IV 80GB HDD Happauge WinTV PVR-250 Antec Sonata Quiet 
> Case   Will be getting DirecTV w/low speed serial port (I hope that XML 
> TV has no issues getting DirecTV listings).   Haven't decided on 
> wireless or cabled yet...   Thanks, Daniel Jimenez

With that kind of CPU power, you could save a few bucks and use a bttv 
tuner - you'll have so much cpu left that the PVR-250 won't help much, 
if at all.

Pete