[mythtv-users] Athlon xp 2000+ enough for HD backend server?

Mache Creeger mache at creeger.com
Thu Oct 19 15:44:40 UTC 2006


I use an Athlon 2200+ XP for my SD frontend/backend system and it 
runs great.  Given that the HD tuners to not have hardware MPEG 
encode, while I cannot say for sure, I would think that your sub 2Ghz 
processor would not have enough horsepower to keep up with the HD 
stream.  Given what I have read, I think you will need a processor 
that runs at 3Ghz or above.

-- Mache Creeger

At 08:22 AM 10/19/2006, Alan Marchiori wrote:
>I have an old Athlon 2000+ KT600 chip set with 512mb of DDR266 Ram; 
>if I add a HD 5500 or HD 3000 tuner (and a big hard drive) will it 
>be able to record HD + serve HD data to 1 front end client at the same time?
>
>This would be for my 1st MythTv setup, and I'd like to keep it cheap 
>as a proof of concept--Maybe upgrade later as needed to support 
>recording 2 HD channels + 3 HD frontends.
>
>Any advice for a cheap but nice looking frontend setup would be 
>appreciated also.  I was hoping to keep it under $300-400 for the 
>frontend (ebay!).
>
>Thanks,
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