On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David George</b> <<a href="mailto:david@thegeorges.us">david@thegeorges.us</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;">
On 10/01/2007 04:31 PM, matt lutz wrote:<br>><br>> If you have the time, can you please comment on my proposed<br>> frontend/backend?<br>><br>> Motherboard - ASUS M2N-E<br>> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131022">
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131022</a><br>><br>> CPU - AMD Athlon<br>> 6000+http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103773<br>><br>> Memory - G.Skill 2GB<br>> (2x1GB)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
<br>><br>> Video Card - nvidia<br>> 6200LEhttp://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814121019<br>><br>> Hard Drive - WD SATA2<br>> 500GBhttp://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822136143
<br>Looks good. Couple of comments. Athlon 6000+ ? Do you do a lot of CPU<br>intensive stuff on this machine? Even playing 1080i and 720p will only<br>take about 50-64% of one of the cores on a 3600+ without using xvmc.
<br>Unless you need that much horsepower I would go with one of the 65watt<br>or 65nm AMD X2 and enable cool-n-quiet. 2Gig is a good amount for<br>combined front/backend. Any reason for the WD hard drive? I haven't
<br>had any problems with them in a while, but I usually get the Seagate<br>with 5-year warranty. WD is typically 1 year (in this case they don't<br>say what the warranty is).<br><br>--<br>David<br><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>David/Todd/Jonathan,<br><br>Thanks for your comments. It sounds fairly unanimous that my CPU is a bit of an overshoot. I do realize it's probably more than I need for playback & recording, but I do transcode a lot of HD down to 720x480 to play back on some SD frontends. So I just figured the more horsepower the better, since sound & power isn't really an issue for this setup. However, I suppose it would make sense to save some $$ on the CPU and buy some more storage.
<br><br>As for the hard drive choice, I didn't really have a preference between WD & Seagate. If Seagate has a 5 year warranty, I will probably go with that. thanks.<br><br>I currently drive my plasma with a frontend through the VGA port. The added distance to get to the new box will only be an extra foot or two, so it should be okay. I would prefer to go DVI, but I'd have to rip my livingroom wall apart (again - I ran it 3 years ago), which I don't feel like doing. As long as it's decent, I'll keep it at VGA.
<br><br>thanks again.<br><br>Matt<br><br><br><br><br><br>