[mythtv-users] your thoughts about this Jetway hardware

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Sun Feb 28 09:13:15 UTC 2010


On 2010-01-22 17:34, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/22/2010 11:22 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 01/22/2010 09:59 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>   
>>> As you all know I currently run my MythTV 0.21.20080304-1 (FE & BE) on
>>> an Epia EN12000 board, with 1TB disk, a Terratec PCI DVB-T card and
>>> Fedora 12. It records 3 channels 24/7 off of one multiplex.
>>>
>>> I was thinking about moving towards a Jetway NC81-lf with AMD Athlon II
>>> X2 235e "Regor" @ 2700 Mhz, the same PCI DVB-T card and some memory.
>>>
(....)
>>>
>>> Any constructive comments are welcome
>> The 235e should be more than enough--should actually do fine for even
>> HDTV MPEG-2.
(...)
>>   
> 
> Oh, and back to the rest of your question (got too excited about the
> possibility of getting e chips)...  It should be fine for valgrind,
> presuming you have sufficient RAM.  (Though valgrind will always slow
> down the programs--as the I/O requirements are high.  So, maybe I should
> say, "running valgrind on it will work about as well as running valgrind
> can be expected to work.")

So far I got this stuff:

Case:	Lian-Li PC-Q07
PSU:	Be-Quiet Pure Power BQT L7 300W
Board:	Jetway MB JNC81-LF Mini-ITX
CPU:	AMD Athlon II X2 235e	
RAM:	Kingston SODIMM DDR2 800 CL5, 4 GB (2 x 2 GB)
Cooler:	SilverStone NT06-E
DVD:	Plextor PX-880SA
Disk:	Samsung HD203WI

I am halfway building this together. It's a tight fit with the
Silverstone but if it all works the whole system will just have one
120mm fan from the standard ATX PSU.
For assembling the Silverstone to the board I re-used the bottom plate
that comes with the Jetway instead of using the plate Silverstone
provided because of the smd parts that are on the bottom of the board. I
drilled to holes in the plate to 3 mm and assembled as normal.
Next week I'll see if stuff works, install Fedora, try to build 0.22
fixes and find a procedure for moving the database from 0.21 to 0.22 safely.

Udo


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