[mythtv-users] Box I'm building

[Christian Hack]

> Daniel Jimenez wrote:
> > All,   Sorry for the flood of emails, I'm very excited about MythTV and
> > cannot wait to get started. Here is the box I'm building, could anyone
> > comment on it? (This will be front end and back end)   AMD Athlon XP
> > 2500+ (333) 512 MB PC2700 Elixar Ram ABIT AT7-MAX 2 Serial ATA 150
> > Segate Baracuda IV 80GB HDD Happauge WinTV PVR-250 Antec Sonata Quiet
> > Case   Will be getting DirecTV w/low speed serial port (I hope that XML
> > TV has no issues getting DirecTV listings).   Haven't decided on
> > wireless or cabled yet...   Thanks, Daniel Jimenez
>
> With that kind of CPU power, you could save a few bucks and use a bttv
> tuner - you'll have so much cpu left that the PVR-250 won't help much,
> if at all.
>

And spend it on some more drive space. Where I live, the sweet spot for IDE
drives is 120GB these days. Do you really need serial ATA?

If course if money's no object...