[mythtv-users] Dell PowerEdge 400SC and ATI 8500DV

[John Girouard]

I appreciate the prompt replies, and now that I've gone back through the archives (downloading 49MB file and searching... there's got to be a better way than that!) and seen what you mean about the craptasticality of the AIW cards, I certainly appreciate the kind tone! Oh well... guess I'm in the market for a new capture card. PVR 250 seems to get good reviews.

$299 is spendy?!?! I'd certainly add more RAM to it, drop my existing ATA133 160GB drive in it, and upgrade to at least the P4 2.4, though. I'm looking to replace a PIII 733 that doesn't play nice w/ Linux (3com net card always gets IRQ 0, which obviously doesn't work so good). Thanks for the pointers!

-John

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 10:13 US/Pacific, Cedar wrote:
> 
>> John Girouard wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>     I was wondering if anyone has successfully setup Myth-TV on a  
>>> Dell PowerEdge 400SC.  
>>> <http://www.xpbargains.com/jump.php?deal=dellsb&arg=http:// 
>>> configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ 
>>> config.aspx?cs=04&oc=PE400SCSAPP&m_1=420CSC&m_3=128M1D3&m_8=40GB&c=us& 
>>> l=en&kc=6W463>
>>> I was planning on purchasing one and dropping my ATI All-in-Wonder  
>>> Radeon 8500DV card into it. Thanks!
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>> All-in_Wonder cards won't work for capture with mythtv. Search the  
>> archives for lots (and lots) of discussion of this issue.
> 
> 
> Yeah, you're SOL on the AIW, but there's no reason a Dell PowerEdge  
> 400SC won't work as your base for a MythTV box (though it is a bit  
> spendy, all things considered). And definitely get more than the base  
> 128MB of RAM. Some people are happy w/256, while some still get  
> swapping at that point. At least 384 should eliminate all swapping.  
> There's really no need for ECC memory either. And a 40GB hard drive is  
> a touch on the small side if you're going to do much recording.  
> Personally, I think you could do far better than that system, and for  
> less money...
> 
> --Jarod
> 
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