[mythtv-users] Is a p3-700 enough for backend with 2 pvr250 cards?

[Jon Whitear]

> Would my old Abit BX6 rev2 mobo with pIII-700 be fast enough for a
backend
> with two pvr250's?
> 
> I also plan to boot two diskless epia me6000 front ends from it via
NFS
> and
> use is my mp3 storage to
> be streamed to my 2 macs running iTunes along with general file
serving
> via
> SMB to the same two macs.
> 
> Does it sound too ambitious or would it suffice?


I think it'll be fine. I have a PIII 500 with a DVB-T card (which is
similar in that your CPU is not required to do any encoding) and
recording a show uses 6% CPU time.

I also boot a diskless EPIA running minimyth from the same machine. It's
also a web server, mail server (with anti-spam and anti-virus) and
various other things. I've had no performance issues.

One thing I _did_ do was add a Silicon Image ATA133 IDE controller in
place of the on-board ATA33, as I have a 160GB Samsung ATA100 drive.

Cheers,

Jon