Bill,<br><br>Have you though about *downgrading* and going for a backend frontend arrangement?<br>E.g. Use a Pentium 3 class machine as the backend and your current AMD setup as your frontend. With the recording load etc taken off will it handle the HD?
<br>It'd be cheap! And much more environmentally friendly (you recycle both the AMD and someone elses P3).<br>You can also hide the backend which is likely to be more wife friendly...<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew McClement</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@macker.co.uk">mythtv@macker.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
William Munson wrote:<br>> Sounds like a good possibility. I already have a SPDIF from the existing<br>> setup so as long as the header is there I should be able to make it<br>> work. Power supply is a stout 450 watt so thats not an issue either. Any
<br>> other systems that are good? How about Pentium 4 dual core systems?</blockquote><div><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
P4D's are too hot, TDP is 95-130W, and not much faster than the AMD. I'd<br>guess the 4200+ is about the same speed as a 3.2Ghz Pentium D940.<br><br>If you want to go down the Intel route get a C2D based machine.<br>
Potentially much higher performance if you're prepared to do some<br>overclocking but the base price will be a bit higher and there aren't<br>currently any decent C2D based motherboards with NVidia onboard video(I
<br>don't consider the Intel integrated graphics mature enough for HD<br>playback/resolutions yet).<br><br>Matt<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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