[mythtv-users] Re: Pundit OR Pundit-R ?

[Ryszard]

i'd be very interested in see if both those cards fit.  its very tight
in a pundit, you might hvae to make a small mod to fit it all.

On Apr 5, 2005 3:21 PM, mandal at optonline.net <mandal at optonline.net> wrote:
> > Radek Svoboda wrote:
> >> emory wrote:
> >>
> >>> I concur with Krunoslav -- when used with the Prescott cores, the
> >>> Pundits are not "virtually silent" as ASUS or some users may claim. I
> >>> have a 2.66 GHz Celeron D with a PVR 250, Seagate Barracuda, SBLive,
> >>> and an 8x DVD burner in my pundit, and it is pretty noisy. When
> >>> watching Live TV on myth, i use about 35% CPU, which causes the small
> >>> case to go up to 48 degrees C, which bumps the CPU fan >2500 RPM CPU
> >>> fan, at which point things become very noisy (especially the PSU fan).
> >>>
> >>> the speed of the Celeron D is pretty amazing -- but I would much
> >>> rather wait for stuff to compile/encode than have a noisy box next to
> >>> my TV. So I would go with the old-school Celerons. They are 10-15 deg
> >>> C cooler and have 30 W less power.
> >>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, they seem to be impossible to get now. Resellers here
> >> offer only 2.0 GHz version as the last item with Northwood core.
> >>
> >> Does more GHz mean more dissipated temperature, or the warmth of the CPU
> >> just depends on the usage?
> 
> >I found the answer by myself, in the Intel Celeron & Celeron-D technical
> >specification. It confirm previous statements by the list contributors
> >and may be useful to the others:
> 
> >Celeron Northwood ... thermal power varies .. 52W (2.0GHz)-68W (2.8GHz)
> >Celeron Prescott ... thermal power fixed at 73W
> 
> >It looks like Prescotts are all the same inside, just locked
> differently. Pitty.
> 
> I'm new to building PC but let me get this straight.
> I'dbe better off buying a 2.4Ghz Celeron than a 2.8 P4?
> At least in terms of noise.
> How does this work in terms of processing power.
> I'm planning on getting a Pundit-R
> with 1GB of memory and throwing in
> both a pchdtv-3000 and an pvr-500.
> I want to be able to watch/record and maybe even burn
> a dvd at the same time.
> I see a 2.4 Celeron going for 98.00 (USD)
> and a 3.0E Ghz P4 going for 180 (USD) normally my impulse is higher is better.  But if I can get the same amount of work done quieter and cheaper so bet it
> 
> Thanks
> Mark A. X. Andal
> 
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