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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Fraser</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mfraz74.orangehome.co.uk">mythtv@mfraz74.orangehome.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Friday 15 February 2008 12:54:10 Steve Smith wrote:<br>> So if I were doing this (and it's my personal opinion) I'd go for a low<br>
> powered box, either a P3 from ebay or one of the more modern lower powered<br>> CPUs. (BTW if you want the green angle... Of the energy used during the<br>> lifecycle of a PC roughly 80% is consumed during the manufacturing only 20%<br>
> during use, so reusing that old PC really is green!)<br><br>If you want really cheap, you could try your local Freecycle group as they<br>sometimes have a few PCs going. Made my 1st Linux computer (Socket A) from<br>
bits I got from Freecycle.<br><br>--<br>|\ /| ark Fraser /mark@<a href="http://mfraz.orangehome.co.uk">mfraz.orangehome.co.uk</a><br>| \/ | Somerset /Using Kmail on Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon<br>| |___________/You know what the sig means!<br>
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<div>Indeed I got my Nvidia FX 5200 from freecycle!</div>
<div>In London PCs come up quite frequently, many of them fully capable of becoming Myth boxen.<br> </div>