[mythtv-users] Digital TV question

[Mark J. Small]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:47, Timothy Waters wrote:
> I'll ask again after tomorrow when the digital cable gets hooked up and I
> know what digital cable box I have and what's on it.
>
> Oh, I've got a 1.67Ghz AMD Athlon 2000+ chip in my desktop. If I upgrade my
> RAM to say 1GB and put at least a 128MB video card in there, would that
> make it a sufficient dedicated MythTV box?

Depends on whether you want to do HD.  For my SD box, my backend is a Duron 
800/256MB with 3 PVR 250's and my frontend is a P3-733/256MB.

Of course, software encoding would require more juice.

Mark