<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've recently been given a PC (specifications below) and am looking at<br>installing Linux (probably Fedora or Ubuntu) and then setting up MythTV. I'd
<br>love to have it as a backend and then setup the script for a front-end on<br>xbmc as I use xbmc quite a lot and would like to keep that.<br><br>However, I'm concerned with the specifications of the PC and would like your
<br>thoughts before I get going (I expect further down the line I'll get a<br>separate server as at the moment I've only got a couple of 40Gb hard drives<br>in the PC therefore a total of 80Gb - I don't think my motherboard will be
<br>able to cope with anything higher than 40GB looking at the Intel website):<br><br>Intel Pentium IIIE, 600 MHz (6 x 100)<br>Intel Seattle II SE440BX-2 (2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM) Motherboard<br>Motherboard Chipset: Intel 82440BX
<br>System Memory: 512 MB (SDRAM)<br>BIOS Type: Phoenix (11/05/99)<br>NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro (32 MB)<br><br>Since I'm living in the UK, I'd also like to connect to Freeview and<br>wondered what the best capture card would be (I presume WinTV Nova-T)?
<br><br>I don't really want to start if 600Mhz isn't going to be enough. Is there<br>any way around this and will I be able to watch live tv as well as<br>pre-recorded tv?</blockquote><div><br>
I guess a 600 MHz CPU will be ok. I have a frontend installed on a 600
MHz notebook and it is on the edge when watching MPEG4 recordings, so
for MPEG2 it should be ok.<br>
Note that a 40 GB harddisk will only store around 20 hours of recording
and using both harddisks for recordings would require joining them with
LVM.<br>
</div></div><br>
Niels Dybdahl<br>
<br>