<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul</b> <<a href="mailto:pjs@fripptv.com">pjs@fripptv.com</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;">
I'm planning my first MythTV setup and need some advice.<br><br>I have a Shuttle XPC (SN41G2) that I'm planning to install Ubuntu on. It's<br>got an Athlon XP 3000 processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, 1 PCI slot, and 1 AGP...
<br>etc. More detailed specs can be found here:<br><a href="http://hq1.shuttle.com/products_page03.jsp?PLLI=86&PI=471">http://hq1.shuttle.com/products_page03.jsp?PLLI=86&PI=471</a><br><br>Mainly I want to be able to skip commercials and watch MP4 encoded movies on
<br>its hard drive. There might be some TV recording but very little.<br><br>Is this a suitable system for my MythTV needs? Which video card is<br>recommended?<br><br></blockquote></div>While this will work. I would not invest more than $250US for the whole thing as the parts (CPU, video card) mentioned in the specs have not been manufactured in at least 2 years. The XP 3000 was a good processor of its time but that was in 2004 and not now. It will run hotter and consume more power than a 65nm brisbane processor and it does not have good power saving built in so the cpu will run at full load (65W or more) all the time instead of the ~25W that the new processors run at during power saving mode.
<br><br>John<br><br>John<br>