[mythtv-users] Frontend Upgrade

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Mon Jun 18 16:44:49 UTC 2007


David Frascone wrote:
> On 6/16/07, *Paul Bender* <pebender at san.rr.com 
> <mailto:pebender at san.rr.com>> wrote:
> 
>     David Frascone wrote:
>      >
>      > Ok -- it's about time for me to upgrade my diskless frontend, so
>     I need
>      > some help on some items:
>      >
>      > 1) I run diskless, and prefer as little noise as possible.  I
>     know that
>      > AMD makes a low power CPU that can be passivly cooled, but I've had
>      > trouble finding one from any of the normal search engines.  (It's
>     hard
>      > to put 15watts in the search).  So -- does anyone have a link for
>     a CPU
>      > / MB combo that can be passivly cooled?  Built in video would also be
>      > nice -- as long as the whole combo can keep up with HD video
>     playback.
>      > So -- does anyone have any newegg or other online vendor links?
> 
>     While not fanless an AMD Athlon 64 Lima with an NVIDIA 6150 based
>     motherboard makes very little noise.
> 
> 
> Cool -- I'll start looking for that -- does that video output dvi?  My 
> LDC accepts VGA, but at a lower resolution.

Yes, DVI-D is supported as is just about any other format.


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