<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div>On 2011-03-12, at 4:02, Dan Smith <<a href="mailto:mrplowdan@gmail.com">mrplowdan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Digital Hit Entertainment</span><br><span><<a href="mailto:dhenews@hotmail.com">dhenews@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Looking to build a MythTV combined frontend/backend to ditch the cable and go with OTA HDTV. Want to be able to duplicate our current cable PVR which enables recording two HD programs while watching another recorded one.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>How's this line up? Realize it's not an HTPC case, but it's a small tower and a good price.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Still need to find a good IR remote that works well with MythTV. Looking</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> to buy in the next week or so.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm not 100% sure about whether the PSU is strong enough (or too much) so really need</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>input there. (one day it'd be great if sales sites had enough info</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>about components in their database to make PSU suggestions. :) )</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P mATX AM2+</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Dual Core Processor Socket AM3 3.0GHZ 2MB L2 Cache 65W Retail Box</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Memory: G.SKILL F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 240PIN Dual Channel</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>HD: Western Digital WD Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Case: Coolermaster Elite 342 Black M-ATX Mid Tower Case 2X5.25 5X3.5INT 1X3.5EXT No PSU</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PSU: Corsair Builder Series CMPSU-430CX 430W ATX Power Supply Active PFC 120MM Fan</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>DVD: Liteon IHAS124 24X DVD Writer SATA Black OEM</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Video: ASUS GeForce GT 430 700MHZ 1GB 1.6GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E DVI VGA HDMI Low Profile Video Card</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>TV Tuner: HD HOMERUN Dual Tuner</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks and have a great weekend.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mythtv-users mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>That 430W will be plenty, a 300W would be enough even, but you can't</span><br><span>really have too big of a PSU. The PSU will only use the wattage the</span><br><span>motherboard/components are pulling. The only things I worry about with</span><br><span>a PSU is the efficiency and noise. HDHR Dual is the way to go for OTA,</span><br><span>my single tuner (just starting out with OTA myself) is in the mail.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For a number of reasons you should consider using a second small harddrive for the OS. You really need a number of partitions with quite different characteristics and it is best to separate the database and video streams to different drives. </div><div>If you have 2 drives, and cron a backup of your mythconverg database to the video drive every night, that single drive can resurrect your entire system on different hardware if your OS drive dies. The Scout motto is 'Be Prepared'. </div><div>Lots about this in the archive.</div><div>Geoff</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span></div></blockquote></body></html>