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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Per Hatlevik<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware list for new mythtv box<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:30 AM, LAUKENS Niels <<a href="mailto:Niels.LAUKENS@vrt.be" target="_blank">Niels.LAUKENS@vrt.be</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 2013-05-23 13:43, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>>Remember also that the noise of the disk drives can be a factor in your<br>>overall<br>>quest for a quiet system. That is one major reason why many of us opt for<br>>split<br>>systems, a quiet diskless or simple front-end and a big back-end<br>>somewhere else<br>>in the house full of disks and fans.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I've been considering this approach as well. I searched for a few hours<br>for a completely silent frontend-box (no fans, no moving parts at all),<br>but they're hard to find.<br><br>I've actually only found the ION2-based boards to be completely fanless<br>and powerfull enough to run Myth with at least some form of de-interlacer.<br>I've found:<br><br>* the Shuttle XS35GT; but in webshops I can only seem to find the v2 and<br>v3, which have an AMD GPU<br><br>* Habey NVidia ION2 Embedded Fanless PC; seems to have bad thermal design<br>(HDD blocks hot CPU air)<br><br>* Jetway NC98-525; seems reasonable.<br><br><br>Any ideas/feedback/experiences with these?<br><br><br>Thx!<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>i recently bought a Jetway Mini-Top Atom Dual-Core 525 Intel NM10 NVIDIA ION2 - HBJC600C99352W-BW off ebay and it works very well as a standalone frontend. it's not entirely fanless but is extremely quiet. it came barebones so all i did was add some ram (a 4GB stick does work in this machine) and use mini-myth to boot diskless.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i have a few ION1 frontends scattered around the house and other than the jetway feeling slightly faster (i assume due to the D525 vs. Atom 330) they seem to be very similar to me.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i'm actually very happy with all my ION based frontends: all very quiet, nice form factor and do everything i would expect a standalone frontend to do.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>per hatlevik <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have an ionitx-c-u (</span><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500028">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500028</a>)<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> by zotac running as my frontend, they no longer make it, as its I think 3 years old now, but the iontix-t looks like it should work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.zotac.com/products/mainboards/integrated-intel-cpu/zotac-ionitx/product/zotac-ionitx/detail/ionitx-t-series/sort/crdate/order/DESC/amount/10/section/specifications.html">http://www.zotac.com/products/mainboards/integrated-intel-cpu/zotac-ionitx/product/zotac-ionitx/detail/ionitx-t-series/sort/crdate/order/DESC/amount/10/section/specifications.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you put it in a mini case, and net boot it, there will be no fans at all, because it has an external brick for power. Like mike said, I consider the split system as the best scenario. You can have a multi drive backend elsewhere than in your “theater” and you can use the same backend as your netboot server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MarcT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>