[mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend

[Jonathan Larson]

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend


On 04/02/2008, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com<mailto:jyavenard at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi

On Feb 4, 2008 11:46 AM, David Frascone <frasconebulk at gmail.com<mailto:frasconebulk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Humm . . Mine is a 2.2 or so Ghz P4 -- think it can keep up?
>

Is this just a backend ?

If yes then 2GHz is plenty of power with plenty to spare.

I run a 200MHz machine with all the services you mentioned , and the
CPU never gets over 5% !

To the person who also replied. A Core 2 Duo a 2.4Ghz is significantly
faster than a 3GHz P4 ... hardly a valid comparison
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A 200Mhz machine you say....interesting....

I'm currently doing a theoretical exercise trying to figure out the lowest power (as in electricity) backend you can get.

The Mini-ITX boards can go as low as ~20w idle (or less), but are very limited in PCI slots (useful in a backend!)

Anyone know if you can get multi-PCI slot boards with these kind of power requirements?

Cheers

Steve

The gOS dev board has 2 SATA/PATA/PCI/DDR-it's the biggest "low power" board I know of...

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html

To answer the OP-I agree that 2.4 should be fine for the backend, as long as you're not calling on it to do much transcoding.

Jon
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