<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> > >> I have a little question about it. I have a ION board frontend and the<br>
> > >> backend in the same place, is it a good idea to join both frontend and<br>
> > >> backend in the same machine? This CPU could manage both service very<br>
> > >> good, I could add a dedicated GPU.<br>
> ><br>
> > > I would keep the frontend separate. You are bound to do things with<br>
> > > the backend that are likely to generate heat and noise and be disruptive<br>
> > > to your playback environment.<br>
> ><br>
> > > If the backend is somewhere else entirely, you can let loose with it<br>
> > > and do whatever you want.<br>
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> ><br>
> > > He said that he has the backend and frontend in the same place...<br>
> > > he wasn't proposing to move the backend elsewhere. If the backend<br>
> > > is going to be there anyway, why have a separate frontend right next to<br>
> > it... just combine them.<br>
> ><br>
> > While his machine should be powerful enough to do both I don't like<br>
> > them to be in the same machine.<br>
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> I respect your opinion, and while we all wish we had unlimited resources<br>
> where we could dedicate a computer to single purpose, you must admit it is<br>
> a bit wasteful.<br>
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</span> If you aren't worrying about supporting any backend features, you can<br>
easily get suitable low profile machines with a proper graphics card for<br>
cheap.<br>
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If you aren't worrying about the machine being small or quiet or even<br>
having a decent video card, you can get some really good deals on hardware.<br>
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Combining the two complicates both and can escalate prices dramatically.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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THAT is potentially quite wasteful.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I honestly don't know why I am continuing this back and forth.</div><div><br></div><div>I have already agreed that an ideal solution would place the backed out of sight where noise doesn't matter. But many of us don't have that luxury. </div><div><br></div><div>For example, under my desk sits two mid tower computers... one is my primary workstation (I work from home so I sit at this for 8 hours every day), the other is my backed server. My workstation is easily the louder of the two, being a COTS HP midtower, while my backend is custom built with 6x120mm fans at 5v (so they are silent from 2ft away) and 5 hdd's mounted in rubber grommets in this case: <a href="http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/arc-series/arc-midi-r2-solid-side-panel">http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/arc-series/arc-midi-r2-solid-side-panel</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>By your logic I should place a 3rd, pretty and silent frontend system next to the other two if I want to watch TV in my office... seems silly to me... adding another computer isnt gonna make the other two quieter or prettier. </div><div><br></div><div>And I don't understand how combining them complicates either one... if anything it simplifies things since I have one fewer system to maintain. This idea that the frontend application is somehow going to crash so spectacularly that it will interrupt recordings or require a reboot just doesn't hold water... going all the way back to 0.11 (circa 2003ish) when I first started with mythtv on a combined system I cannot recall it ever happening to me (just search for "thefrys" in the username on gossamer.. I'm sure I would have posted about it if it had happened).</div></div></div></div>