[mythtv-users] Advice on a low power server/backend?

[Sarah Katherine Hayes]

James Stembridge wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Lindsay Mathieson 
> <lindsay.mathieson at optusnet.com.au 
> <mailto:lindsay.mathieson at optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     Thanks Brian And Sarah, very useful info - I'd heard that the VIA
>     MB's could
>     be touchy but had hoped it was a thing of the past, particuarly
>     with minimyth
>     etc.
>
>
> I've run a epia-based combined frontend/backend with dual DVB tuners 
> for over 3 years now, never seen any evidence of these oft-mentioned 
> VIA problems.
>
> Your mileage, of course, may vary.
>
It really depends on which epia you've got and what you're doing with 
it.  Some of them neatly sidestep or are newer than the issues, some of 
them.... don't.

My old MII10K is a mixture, sit on the remote or make heavy use of the 
WiFi and it dies. All three of the Intel laptops... work perfectly and 
you get to see "copyright Intel Corporation" appear in dmesg; which 
warms the cockles of my enduser heart :)

If I was building them all new, Intel chip, Intel chipset, Intel 
graphics.  Maybe a separate audio card... depends if the board had sp/dif. 

YMMV and it's all subjective, I'm sure someone on the list has had an 
Intel board perpetually misbehave.