On 31/12/2007, John D. Friesen <<a href="mailto:john@frieware.com">john@frieware.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> Thanks for the input everyone. I guess I`ll start figuring out parts for a completely silent FE then.<br>
> <br><br><br>You could do worse than: <br>Fanless mini-itx motherboard with onboard everything and tv-out<br>512MB RAM (more is a waste on dedicated box), <br><a href="http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=10#p1832">Pico-PSU tiny and silent power supply
</a> <br>USB or PCI Wifi adapter, <br>IDE->Flash adapter + 4GB flash card for linux - quicker than a USB stick<br>Microsoft MCE USB remote <br><a href="http://linpvr.org">Minimyth<br></a><br>Just to scotch comments above, I live in a crowded apartment block in the UK, there are 16 Wifi networks in range according to netstumbler, I never get better than 30% throughput on the connection, yet I get stutter-free SD playback on my wifi laptop using MythTVPlayer
<br><br>My frontend box recently died. It was connected by ethernet and netbooted but otherwise looked like the one I listed above.<br><br>Good luck<br>