[mythtv-users] Recommendation for replacement motherboard/processor?

[William Munson]

Steve Smith wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Have you though about *downgrading* and going for a backend frontend 
> arrangement?
> E.g. Use a Pentium 3 class machine as the backend and your current AMD 
> setup as your frontend. With the recording load etc taken off will it 
> handle the HD?
> It'd be cheap! And much more environmentally friendly (you recycle 
> both the AMD and someone elses P3).
> You can also hide the backend which is likely to be more wife friendly...
>
> Steve

A split system is not really an option at this time. Only one location 
with the cable connection, at the tv set and this is a rental property 
so no chance to change things around. Plus the new mobo has already been 
through the wife approval process. :)

The current setup will barely play a couple of the HD channels and does 
a fair job on the rest but there are stability issues in that the video 
is jittery at times and nothing I have tried will improve it beyond its 
current performance level. The system first thinks the video is too slow 
and drops frames then milliseconds later thinks the video is too fast 
and doubles frames in a noticeable cycle.

Bill