[mythtv] Potential Set-up
Chris Lack
ixion at linuxpusher.com
Wed Feb 5 00:51:06 EST 2003
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:29 am, Michael Stearne wrote:
> How does this setup look to you all:
>
> LEADTEK WINFAST A170TH SDR GEFORCE4 MX420 64MB 4XAGP W/TV VGA (White
> box) $39.50
If you want to be able to make adjustments to the tv-out settings try to find
a GF2 MX with a brooktree tv encoder. The GF4 uses an nvidia designed tv-out
chip.
> AMD ATHLON & SDRAM SYSTEMS (BLACK) 1.44MB FDD
> (CG 6055-C10-Case; BIOSTAR M7VKQ-Specs; AMD ATHLON 1333(266MHZ); 32X64
> 256MB PC133; NO CDROM, CDRW OR DVD) $177.36 (
> http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/a15913.html )
Are you certain you want to use an athlon for this? I know a lot of people
are and the athlons are great processors but they're somewhat hard to keep
comfortably cool without much noise and they eat a lot of electricity (60-65W
for that model). I just received my new celeron 1.3ghz today and it's been
running burn-in tests clocked at 1495 for almost 12 hours now. I've been
checking in on it via an ssh shell and the hottest I've seen it (retail box
hs/fan) was 97.9F. The heatsink and fan are bigger on this one than my
celeron 800 that it replaced, but the fan spins at a lower rpm and is almost
silent. It's also power bill friendly (35W). It can do 480x480 in either
format with high-ish quality settings with about 15% cpu to spare (rtjpeg
seems to lose any efficiency edge at higher resolutions).
> KINGSTON 10/100 PCI NETWORKING INTERFACE CARD KNE110TX VP (OEM) $5.90
DEC Tulip if I'm not mistaken. Probably the best 100mbps network chipset for
linux.
> MAXTOR 60.0GB DX6Y060L0 EIDE ULTRA-ATA 133 8.5MS 7200RPM 2MB BUFFER
> (Bare drive) $83.00
Are you sure 60GB is big enough? I know the 40GB I'm using isn't nearly
enough for what I want. I'm going for at least a 100GB soon. I could
probably deal with my drive a little longer if it wasn't so CLACKITTY CLACK
loud (ibm). My three maxtors are all very quiet...I've never used one of the
liquid bearing seagates everyone keeps talking about so I can't compare.
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