On 12/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Dhillon</b> <<a href="mailto:tobor@berkeley.edu">tobor@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So I've finally submitted to the fact that I don't have the hardware to<br>build a decent frontend/backend in the same machine:<br><br>CPU: Athlon64 3200+<br>RAM: 1GB<br>HDD: 500GB SATA, 250GB SATA<br>Video: Geforce 6800 GT 512MB
<br>TV: 2x pcHDTV 5500, 2x PVR-150<br><br>It's almost there, but what I'm gonna do instead is make that machine a<br>backend. This machine just cannot play HDTV while streaming SD or HD to<br>another frontend. I can't believe it, as I know that this hardware is
<br>plenty powerful.<br><br>So, what I would like to know from you guys is, what's the best<br>(price/performance tradeoff) hardware for building a frontend to play SD<br>and HDTV? If I could get away with spending <$300 that would be best. I
<br>have a case, dvdrom and hdd already.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jesse.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Hmmm, I bet this WOULD do it, but it seems you're already resigned. I myself have considered the mac mini as a potential FE.
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