[mythtv-users] Hardware recommended?

[Robert May]

You might want to look into whether or not that board will work with
the LC-11M.  First thing I notice is that it has FDD headers between
the pci slots and the edge of the card.  If you're going to need  to
connect to this then it might be a problem.  The pci cards may block
access to the FDD headers since they sit horizontal to the board and
could extend over that space.  The other thing you might want to think
about is that it uses pci express and not agp.  The case comes with an
agp riser card included and a pci riser card costs about $30.

May the luck be with you,
Robert



On 11/16/05, Robert Denier <rdenier at finiteinfinity.org> wrote:
> I'd go with an nforce chipset probably.  I bought an nforce 2 board for this
> purpose and it seems fine, and it is fairly low cost.  Fancier and newer ones
> are probably fine, but I'd avoid anything that was released in the past ~3
> months if possible, unless you have solid information on its reliability in
> similar situations.  [Things a few months old tend to have more bugs worked
> out, and may even have bios updates available.]
>
> For capture, unless your dealing with firewire or HDTV over the air signals,
> you almost certainly want to go with a hauppage card.  I'd just get a PVR 150
> and if you need another later you can add one then.  Of course if your sure
> you want two then the 500's work well apparently.  (A 500 is basically two
> 150's on a single pci card.)
>
> For memory 512MB is probably the best choice.  More probably won't help,
> although HDTV might be an exception.
>
> I only used KnoppMyth for a day to try to figure out why my Gentoo
> installation didn't work.  Still, it is a good starting point.
>
> I'm not familiar with that particular motherboard.
>
> As regards to noise, well you need to decide if you want your backend to be
> separate from your frontend(s).  If so, then maybe your backend can make lots
> of noise, but be put somewhere so it doesn't matter.
>
> Your front end can be diskless and fanless if you go with something like VIA
> EPIA, or probably some normal processors, with the right heat sinks.  One
> irritation about diskless systems is they seem to lag a bit more and are of
> course more trouble to initially setup.  Gigabit network based diskless
> systems might be interesting.  Some of the cases on logicsupply.com use power
> supplies without fans, although what all those can be used with would require
> some research...
>
> Good luck.  Btw I'm sure I've seen this topic several times before.  If you
> look around the mythtv web page there should be a link to search old messages
> of this list somewhere.
>
> -Robert
>
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:36 pm, Bertrand M wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >   I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in regards  to
> > hardware, as I am getting a little overwhelmed with all the choices.  I run
> > FreeBSD and XP at home, but haven't used Linux in a long time.
> >
> >   Here are my needs:
> >
> >       - I want to use the Silverstone LC11M case,
> >       - I will probably use KnoppMyth as it seems the easiest
> >       - am worried about fan noise,
> >       - will be using MAME and bittorrent more than actual encoding
> >       - but want one capture card with the option of having two at some
> > point, - am not worried about money necessarily (if something costs 100$
> > more and is THAT much better, fine)
> >
> >   For a mobo, I was looking at
> >       BIOSTAR TForce6100-939
> >   but it seems that is very problematic with Linux drivers?
> >
> >   Another direction I was considering would be to use a mobile Pentium or
> > Celeron. Is this common?
> >
> >   I assumed my first capture card would be a Hauppauge PVR-x50.
> >
> >   What mobo+cpu combos run the coolest and are least problematic driver
> > wise? GPU wise, sounds like nVIDIA is the only way to go, correct?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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