Since you're going with a new setup and your mobo supports SATAII, why not go with SATAII disks and get the added performance/speed that SATA offers. Also, SATA is just as inexpensive as its IDE counterpart nowdays.<br>
Mike<br><br>Unless the 700GB of IDE is something you already own, then might not be worth buying all new drives.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike OZ</b> <<a href="mailto:MikeOZ@australianbyte.com">
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I need to setup MythTV to replace a system I bought a couple of years ago.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am thinking of setting it up using Kubuntu or Linuxmce. I tried to this on some old hardware and failed with various hardware faults so I am going to buy new hardware. The hardware would be:
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<ul style="padding: 0px;"><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CPU Intel BX80557E2140 Pentium Dual Core E2140 CPU, 1.6 GHz, FSB 800MHz, 1MB Cache, 65W, Socket LGA775</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mother Board Gigabyte GA-P31-S3L GA-P31-S3L M/b - P31, 1333MHz FSB, Dual DDR2-800, PCI Express x16, SATA II, GbE, LAN, 8Ch, ATX </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Video NVDIA Gigabyte GV-NX72G512P2 GF 7200GS PCI-E 256MB 64-bit DDR2, DVI, VGA, HDTV, Heatsink</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Memory Kingston KVR800D2N5K2/1G 1GB KIT 800MHz DDR2 NON ECC 240pin UNBUFFERED DIMM </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">DVD Writer Sony DVD awg170ab2 dvd+rw/+r, dvd-rw/-r int</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TV Card FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">700Gb of IDE disk.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Could anyone please advise me if this is suitable hardware or tell me where I should address this question?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><b>Mike O'Ceirin</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><b>Canberra</b></span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: blue;"><b>"Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide"</b></span></div>
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