[mythtv-users] High end, state of the art Myth Frontend

Andre Newman mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk
Mon Sep 30 15:09:59 UTC 2013


On 30 Sep 2013, at 14:37, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Nice setup.  About how much did it cost for the components?  Do you happen to have stats on idle power consumption?

I had some items already, case, psu, ram, ssd so really I just bought a motherboard and cpu, oh and yet another 4TB hard disk :-)




	
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B1663941 (ASUS H87I-PLUS - Asus H87I-PLUS Intel H87 1150 Mini ITX 2 DDR3 USB3 6 SATA3 RAID)	1	76.79	15.36	92.15	92.15
B1700197 (Seagate ST4000VM000 - Seagate 3.5" 4TB SATA3 Video 3.5 Hard Drive 5900RPM 64MB Cache Pipeline HD 24/7)	1	130.72	26.14	156.86	156.86
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VAT	62.99
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I did some power tests this morning, not that accurate as I'm using my UPS to measure how much more power is used over the server's idle use:

~70w while playing a 1080i50 video
~40w while sitting on a mythTV menu.

I haven't pushed it hard yet but running Unigine Heaven 4.0 (quite slowly, 9fps) it's maxing one core and using around 70w again.

I have a reasonably efficient 350w psu but wondering if the biggest 160w PicoPSU will be man enough to run everything in a nice media center case, like the Silverstone LC19 or Streacom FC5.

btw the 4TB HDD is in the backend server so not included in the ~70w.


Ok Unigine Valley pushes both cores and it's using ~127w, seems like the GPU is given a little more to do too, it's warmed up a  little to 65 degrees, bear in mind this is a passive card.




> 
> Ive always used atoms for my FEs in the past but like the idea of having extra horsepower in case its needed.

I had an Atom motherboard, a Supermicro server board here for another project so I have tried it out when the old motherboard went bang. I wasn't very impressed generally and it's obviously totally useless for software decode.

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