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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">N Dugas</b> <<a href="mailto:normdugas@yahoo.ca">normdugas@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing<br>how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on
<br>the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this:<br><br>Make my current Myth box a backend only but also add a firewire<br>connection to my DCT-6412. I then plan on setting up another Myth box<br>
as a frontend only. My understanding is that the frontend has lower HW<br>requirements.<br><br>Hardware config for my current Myth box (to become my backend) is:<br><br>Mobo: A7N8X-E Deluxe<br>CPU: Athlon XP 3000<br>RAM: 1G Dual DDR
<br>Video: ATI Radeon 9550 w/ 256M<br>Disk: Seagate 200G<br>Lan: D-LINK DWL-G520 Wireless NIC<br>Connected to my 26" Samsung LCD HDTV.<br><br>I have at my disposal (to use/swap into this box if needed, based on<br>feedback):
<br>GeForce FX5500 w/ 256M<br>Seagate 200G<br>Extra 512M Dual DDR stick<br><br>For my new frontend:<br>Mobo: MSI KT4V-L<br>CPU: Athlon XP 1800<br>RAM: 512M<br>Video: Whatever is left, ATI Radeon 9550 or ATI Radeon 9550<br>
Disk: Seagate 200G<br>Lan: D-LINK DWL-G520 Wireless NIC<br><br><br>Will this work?<br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>This should be more than adequete. I use an xbox as a remote frontend, which is much less than what you are proposing.<br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Rob Anderson<br><a href="mailto:riznob@gmail.com">riznob@gmail.com</a>