[mythtv-users] How much horse power?

[James Armstrong]

Larry Sanderson wrote:
> I'm hoping to put together my dream system in the next couple of weeks.  It 
> will look like this:
> 
> Home built backend
> - Athlon 64, 3800
> - 2GB Ram
> - Lot's of hard-drives (4x250M = 1TB)
> - WinTV PVR 150
> - pchdtv HD-3000
> 
> 
> A fanless frontend from www.hushtechnologies.com
> 
> 
> The questions:
> 
> 1) Do I need a powerhouse frontend to display HDTV streamed from the backend 
> over gigabit ethernet?  I was hoping to get away with a modest CPU to keep 
> the box cool.
> 2) Any issues with my choice of tv tuners?  Will I be able to record an ATSC 
> stream off the pchdtv card while watching an NTSC stream off the WinTV card?
> 3) Any experience using a 64-bit distro with these cards?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance you have!
> 

Man, that backend is way overkill. I am running two Air2pc cards, 2 
PVR250's and 500tb of storage on a Athlon 2400 512 megs of memory. That 
is even more that I need. The power needs to be in the frontend.

My frontend is a P4 3g 1gig memory NVidia 5200.

- James