[mythtv-users] Newbie Questions

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 16:37:52 UTC 2007


On 7/11/07, Paul <pjs at fripptv.com> wrote:
>
> I'm planning my first MythTV setup and need some advice.
>
> I have a Shuttle XPC (SN41G2) that I'm planning to install Ubuntu on. It's
> got an Athlon XP 3000 processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, 1 PCI slot, and 1
> AGP...
> etc. More detailed specs can be found here:
> http://hq1.shuttle.com/products_page03.jsp?PLLI=86&PI=471
>
> Mainly I want to be able to skip commercials and watch MP4 encoded movies
> on
> its hard drive. There might be some TV recording but very little.
>
> Is this a suitable system for my MythTV needs? Which video card is
> recommended?
>
> While this will work. I would not invest more than $250US for the whole
thing as the parts (CPU, video card) mentioned in the specs have not been
manufactured in at least 2 years. The XP 3000 was a good processor of its
time but that was in 2004 and not now. It will run hotter and consume more
power than a 65nm brisbane processor and it does not have good power saving
built in so the cpu will run at full load (65W or more) all the time instead
of the ~25W that the new processors run at during power saving mode.

John

John
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