[mythtv-users] Athlon xp 2000+ enough for HD backend server?

[James Armstrong]

On 10/19/2006 11:22 AM, Alan Marchiori wrote:
> I have an old Athlon 2000+ KT600 chip set with 512mb of DDR266 Ram; if 
> I add a HD 5500 or HD 3000 tuner (and a big hard drive) will it be 
> able to record HD + serve HD data to 1 front end client at the same time?
>
> This would be for my 1st MythTv setup, and I'd like to keep it cheap 
> as a proof of concept--Maybe upgrade later as needed to support 
> recording 2 HD channels + 3 HD frontends. 
I used to have a backend that was an athlon XP 2000 512 megs ram. It 
could record from two HD3000's and one PVR250 while I played an HD from 
a separate frontend. I did the commercial flagging on the frontend only.

- James