[mythtv-users] Perfect frontend?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 22:55:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/3/4 John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
>>
>> The $300 device I was talking about would have to be no louder than a
>> dvd player is while spinning up playing a movie. Being that I have
>> built a few hundred computers in my lifetime this is not the most
>> difficult part.
>
> I'd love to know what configuration you would use that for $300 would be
> perfectly silent and would fit under a TV.
>
> I bought a mini last July but thanks to the crappy intel onboard video I
> quickly stopped using it as a mythtv frontend.
>
> I since replaced it with a PC ; got what was supposed to be one of the
> quietest power supply (Seasonic S12+) , along a very silent case (Antec
> Media Fusion). I removed all the fan only to use a big CPU cooler  (Noctua
> NH-C12P)... A silent video card (9400GT).
>
> That adds up to way more than $300 ; and it is still nowhere as quiet as my
> previous mini ! (though I can't hear it when the TV is running)
>

Not totally silent but less noisy than a dvd player.

Something like this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107039

with a vdpau card in the pci slot. Add 2GB of memory and hard drive.

John


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