[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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