On Jan 22, 2008 9:39 AM, riverty <<a href="mailto:riverty@kc.rr.com">riverty@kc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Greg Mischel Smith wrote:<br>> I'm in the process of building my HTPC with Mythbuntu for playing Over<br>> the air HDTV.<br>> I have an AMD 3800+ Dual-Core processor on my home desktop and I just
<br>> purchased an AMD 5000+ Dual-Core processor.<br>><br>> My desktop computer is running just fine on the 3800+, but I thought<br>> it might be nice to upgrade it and move the 3800+ to my HTPC. Would I<br>> have a better experience on my HTPC using the 5000+ processor versus
<br>> the 3800+, or will the difference not be noticed.<br>><br>> I currently just have one pcHDTV 5500 card, but I plan to get a second<br>> one in the future so I probably will be recording and playing ATSC<br>
> HDTV content at the same time.<br>><br>> Greg Smith<br>> KCMO<br></div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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</a><br>><br>Greg,<br><br>First, nice to meet you. I'm in Overland Park!<br><br>Second. I'm currently running a mythtv box using a 4200 x2 with 2<br>PVR-150 cards and 1 ATI HDTV Wonder card. No problems and I could say
<br>that I show this machine "no mercy." I have asked it to record 1 HD<br>program *and* 1 SD program *and* watch a different SD program all at the<br>same time --> no problems. System seems to laugh at me and say "give me
<br>more dad!"<br><br>Other specs:<br><br>2 GB DDR-II RAM<br>1 x 120GB Sata drive (system boot and music)<br>2 x 320GB Sata drives (1 for active recordings - 1 for DVD movie storage)<br>Asus MB (I forget which model now)
<br>NVidia GeForce 7950GT 256MB PCIx<br>2 x Lite-On DVD drives (1 Sata and 1 IDE)<br>1 x Lite-On CD-ROM drive (for audio use only)<br>NZXT 550 Watt PS<br><br>Soo, upgrade your workstation and use the 3800 x 2 for your mythtv box!
<br>Should be fine. Good luck!<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Nice to see there are some people from KC on this list. I as well live in Overland Park :) <br><br>The 3800 will be fine but more is always better...
<br><br>Here is my system:<br>Fedora 8 64bit/fully updated<br>MythTV atrpms-bleeding packages<br>AMD X2 5200 (2.4Ghz)<br>1 gb of DDR2 800<br>500gb sata drive (w/10gb system partition and the rest recordings)<br>120gb sata (w/2.5GB SWAP and the rest recordings)
<br>HDHomeRun<br>PVR 150.<br><br>But i continue to have shuddering HD video when com flagg begins. But that is a separate issue that i have a email about.<br><br>Mitchell <br>