[mythtv-users] First build - Looking for CPU recommendations

[Chris]

Brandon Penglase wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:40:58 -0400
> Chris <ck42 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
>> Wade Maxfield wrote:
>>>>  >
>>>>>  My Celeron 1.3GHz slave backend/frontend managed this, in almost
>>>>>  silence. Uses 2x DVB-T cards and 1x PVR-150 card for recording.
>>>>> ATI Radeon 9000 for output to TV. (No HDTV available in the UK)
>>>> Celeron 1.3 doing two recordings and a playback(non-HD) w/o any
>>>> problems?? wow!  That's much less HP than I would've expected!
>>>
>>> The thing you're overlooking is the PVR500 is doing h/w based MPEG2 
>>> encoding.  So the actual recording is taking next to nothing in CPU 
>>> usage.
>> Excellent.  Based on some further research, I'm leaving heavily
>> towards a A64 3000+ Venice.  Sounds like this would be a good
>> compromise between costs and performance for my needs.
> 
> 
> I'm looking at these for my backend system:
> 
> 
> AMD A64 3700+ (2.2gig) San Deigo, 1gig ram, 600gig (software raid), 2x
> gigabit lan, DVD-Rom, 3 tuners: 
>  
> 
> CHENMING 901AD-SILVER-0 Silver 1.0mm SECC Server Computer Case - $66.00
> 
> 4x Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V300F0 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
> - ($118.00) $472.00 
> 
> MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD
> Motherboard - $110.99 

Also looking at this same m/b.

> 3x Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE PCI Interface 1042 Tuner Card - ($63.99)
> $191.97 

Why 3 separates vs. a PVR-500 and a single 150?  Wondering if there's 
any reason why I should instead go with 2 separate 150's vs. the single 500.

> 
> LITE-ON Black ATAPI/E-IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model SHD-16P1S - $17.99
> 
> Rosewill Value RV450S ATX1.3 450W Power Supply $33.99
> 
> ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro Cooling Fan with Heatsink - $32.99
> 
> 2x Crucial Technology 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
> Unbuffered System Memory Model CT6464Z40B - ($38.99) $77.98
> 
> AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model
> ADA3200BPBOX - $154.00
>  
> Total: $1,093.92
> 
> Of course it'll be sharing out on samba mounts too. 
> 
> Priced from newegg.com... figured I would add this to the thread to let
> people know what others are looking at. 
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