[mythtv-users] Low Power System

[Terry Barnaby]

On 06/03/17 06:44, Kirk wrote:
> I've just updated one of my MythTv frontends using an ASRock J3710-ITX
>> mini-itx board. This has an Intel Quad-Core Pentium Processor J3710built
>> onto the board and has a power usage of < 6 Watts. It has optical audio
>> out for surround sound amps etc. There is a Celeron version which is
>> slightly cheaper. Teamed with a cheap SSD SATA disk or USB stick to boot
>> from it work well with SD and HD. The video is hardware decoded in the
>> CPU's graphics chip. Using a Fedora 25 installation with the VAAPI
>> drivers uses about 15% of the CPU's watching full HD and is quick with
>> the MythTv menu's etc. Seems to work well so far.
>
> That's a decent looking board.  Couple of questions; are you running 
> combined front/backend system?  How much RAM are you running?  Are you 
> using a standard ATX power supply?
>
> Thanks,
> _______________________________________________ 
I'm just running a MythTv frontend on it, but I'm sure it would be fine 
running a backend as well. It actually runs the full KDE/Plasma Fedora25 
so is used for normal Firefox/Games by the kids as well. The board has 4 
x SATA connectors, so would be ok for disks. It only has one PCI-E slot 
so USB or Ethernet frontends would be needed unless one PCI-E frontend 
card is enough for you for a backend. I have a single 4GByte RAM module, 
although it is dual channel. I have put it in a Cubid 2799 80W Mini-ITX 
Case which I had which has a 80W power supply (A bit over rated!). My 
backend is an older Intel Core-2 system mini-atx system with 3 x DVB-T 
and one DVB-S frontend's with 6 TBytes of disk which is a general home 
server as well as Mythbackend.