Good morning all,<br><br>I'm currently using a full-blown 2.8GHz P4 (with HT) for my backend, but it's costing waaay too much to keep that running 24/7 (and it sounds like the inside of an aeroplane in our living room!). I was wondering if anyone here had any recommendations on what I should replace it with?<br>
<br>Things I use the backend for:<br>- Recording 1-3 SD programs simultaneously from a PCI Nova T500 (Dual tuner)<br>- Sharing those recordings, plus other videos, music & pictures using Samba (my frontends are Xboxes running XBMC)<br>
- Mythweb & Webmin<br>- Transmission torrent client<br><br>Things I *don't* do:<br>- Transcoding or comm flagging<br>- Live TV<br>- HDTV<br><br>I've done a bit of Googling, but all the site/thread/posts I find are 2 or more years old, and thus are pretty irrelevant (or are they?). I'm happy to build my own box from scratch, or use something pre-built.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>Vitani<br>