<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/25 <a href="mailto:moodyjunk@frontiernet.net">moodyjunk@frontiernet.net</a> <<a href="mailto:moodyjunk@frontiernet.net">moodyjunk@frontiernet.net</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
After scouring the forums, here is what I've settled on for my PVR<br>
build using MythDora and the key reasons I chose it.<br>
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processor - Intel E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo)<br>
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Comments welcome before I start collecting parts. </blockquote><div> <br>Any particular reason for this processor? You can pick up a Q6600 (only 2.4GHz) which, whilst slower, does have 2 extra cores, which for a workload like myth may actually be better. (especially if you wanted to run multiple transcoding jobs.)<br>
<br>I have a dual core 2.4 AMD and I don't seem to hit high CPU usage, but I do sometimes have quite a high load average. (which is basically lots of stuff being ready to run.) this would probably be better served by more cores rather than a faster core? <br>
<br>I may be going crazy though, what do others think?<br><br>Also, are you going for 32 or 64 bit? Is it worth getting more than 2G of memory??<br><br>Hmm, you might be able to get away with a cheaper PSU too, I don't know how much power your 3 tuners use, but I power mine (single cable tuner, dual core cpu, 2 gig mem, couple of HDs) off a 380W PSU with no issues. (It draws around 100W)<br>
<br>I don't mean a /cheap/ PSU, (I've got a Tagen, very happy with it.) but a good quality lower power one may be worth considering? (Top PSU tip: Weigh the bugger, the heavier the better.)<br><br>Oh, yeah, one other thing, have you considered some kind of RAID, or other multi drive setup? Recording/transcoding/mysqling is all quite IO intensive, so 2 500G in RAID0 would probably be more responsive than a single large drive. (That being said, I only use 1 drive and haven't noticed an issue.)<br>
<br>I don't know about the Silverstone, but I will sing the praises of the Antec P182 case too, a bit fiddly to get stuff in (and PSU size matters) but it's increadably quiet (and the PSU sits at the bottom in a chamber with the HDs so doesn't cook the processor, this means I can actually run my CPU without a fan for most of the time!)<br>
<br>Just my 2p's worth. :)<br><br>Ian<br></div></div><br>