[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:
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> 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 :-)
Item Quantity client price VAT (20%) Item Tot. Line Total
2823401 (Intel BX80646I34340 - Intel Core i3 (4340) 3.6GHz Processor 4MB L3 Cache 54W 5GT/s Bus Speed (Boxed)) 1 98.92 19.78 118.70 118.70
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
Delivery: England & Wales (non-guaranteed next working day) ---- 8.50 1.70 10.20 10.20
Voucher Credit ---- -0.00 -0.00 -0.00 -0.00
Discount ---- -0.00 -0.00 -0.00 -0.00
Total Ex. VAT 314.93
VAT 62.99
GRAND TOTAL (GBP): 377.92
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.
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> 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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