[mythtv-users] Reference fanless frontend, frontend, backend, fe/be

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 23:13:55 UTC 2011


Totally silent means fanless and solid state disks or net boot.
That increases the cost significantly compared to a 'comparatively' quiet
front end (the comparison being a tivo sky+ or other pvr which do contain
hard disks and fans.

As far as i know there is no amd chipset currently worth recommending you
are limited to nvidia if you want a reasonably quiet frontend (non too
powerful cpu and therefore no fast fans cooling it).

As for a reference documented frontend it is true maybe this could be made
more promontent in the online documentation.

The current recomendation is for an ion based system such as an eee pc or a
zotac ion-a with 512mb configured for the video and 2gb total. There systems
have a single fan and can net boot. You may want to add a fan controller to
decrease the noise but they are not that noisy.

This is enough typing on a tiny keyboard (powercut affecting broadband
currently)

Please excuse brevity and pistakes, this email was sent from my Android
smart phone.

Thanks and best regards,

Richard Morton
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