[mythtv-users] Getting ready to setup a new system

[Neil Matthews]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:03:32 -0600
  Dave Anderson <dave at ineedasite.com> wrote:
>Hello all,
>I'm getting ready to setup a new MythTV system for the 
>first time and wanted opinions on my hardware.
>
>I have an old Dell XPS PIII/650 MHz with 128 Meg Ram. I 
>will up the ram to 265 Meg.
>I'll be using the original 20 Gig HDD and an additional 
>180 Gig HDD.
>I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 coming.
>I have a PNY nVidia GeForce4 5600 Ultra coming.
>Sound card is Yamaha based.
>I also have a Pinnacle PCTV Pro I was thinking of adding 
>in as a second tuner.
>
>I'm hoping the high end tuner and video will compensate 
>for the lack of CPU. What do you all think? Will it work? 
>I don't really care if I can't pause live tv, but it 
>would be nice if I can. Maybe down the road I can get a 
>faster cpu and use it as a backend for a few frontends 
>located in the family room and bedrooms.
>
>Oh yeah, I plan to use RedHat 9.
>
>


Sounds much the same as my system.

P3 - 840Mhz
384Mb Ram
20Gb HD
PVR-250
GF4 440MX
SB Live 5.1

Using LinuxFromScratch (Custom Built Linux).

With this system recording takes almost nothing (maybe 1 - 
2 %).  Playback however take about 40%  but this is full 
size PAL (720x576)

All features of MythTV work.

Currently running CVS.

The only problem I have is with autostarting MythTV with X 
but thats more user error than anything else.

Neil