[mythtv-users] New to HDTV; looking for advice

[Jacob Steenhagen]

I've been running MythTV for quite a while now using Fedora Core 4 and a
PVR-350 card. I recently bought a new TV (an LG HDTV). The new TV has VGA in
and I intend to use that for connecting a new MythTV box. I have an older
Dell machine (a 2GHz P-4 w/512 MB of RAM) that I'd like to use. It has an
onboard Intel video card. Will this card be sufficient, or should I go with
something else. I do have a PCI GeForce FX 5500 I could use without any
additional hassel (well, other than putting it in and installing the
drivers). I'm not sure what capture card I'm gonna go with yet. A friend of
mine thinks he has a card I can use, but he's from out of state and not home
right now so I won't know exactly what the card is until he gets back.

Does that machine sound acceptably powerful? If not, I have a more powerful
machine that I could use. The only issue with that is it's currently running
as a Windows XP box and would be quite a bit of work to install XP on the
Dell and move everything over to it. The other machine is an AMD 64 3500+
w/1 GB of RAM and a GeForce 6800 GS.

Thanks in advance for any/all responses.

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http://jacob.steenhagen.us
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