[mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 16:32:15 UTC 2008


that depends on what you put in the slots.

On Feb 4, 2008 10:42 AM, Jonathan Larson <jtlarson at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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> *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
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> On 04/02/2008, *Jean-Yves Avenard* <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> On Feb 4, 2008 11:46 AM, David Frascone <frasconebulk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Humm . . Mine is a 2.2 or so Ghz P4 -- think it can keep up?
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> Is this just a backend ?
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> If yes then 2GHz is plenty of power with plenty to spare.
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> I run a 200MHz machine with all the services you mentioned , and the
> CPU never gets over 5% !
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> 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....
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> I'm currently doing a theoretical exercise trying to figure out the lowest
> power (as in electricity) backend you can get.
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> The Mini-ITX boards can go as low as ~20w idle (or less), but are very
> limited in PCI slots (useful in a backend!)
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> Anyone know if you can get multi-PCI slot boards with these kind of power
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> Cheers
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> Steve
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> The gOS dev board has 2 SATA/PATA/PCI/DDR—it's the biggest "low power"
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html
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> 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.
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> Jon
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