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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009, Tom Potts wrote: > > >> On Monday 04 May 2009 12:48, Rob Beard wrote: >> ... >> >>> My next project is going to be rebuilding a HP Pavillion Slimline which >>> is going to be a bit of a challenge. It's got a 160W PSU and it's >>> fairly limited to what hardware I can put in there but I figure with an >>> Athlon X2 dual core CPU and low end graphics card I should be able to >>> make a reasonable MythTV box. >>> >> That sound more than powerful enuf! >> I get the impression the TV card, disk setup and DMA are more important in >> terms of 'power'... >> > > You should be able to do it with a 1GHz VIA processor - some of the > systems have on-board mpeg decode and TV out, and I think there are > drivers for it all now. > > I'll see if I can find out the processor used in the ReelBox... > http://www.reelbox.co.uk as it's a friend of mine in Bristol that's the > disty for them... > > Gordon > > Thing is with a VIA processor I'd have to buy another motherboard, this PC already had the motherboard, memory etc all it needed was a CPU (about £35 for an Athlon X2 4400+, couldn't find a 45w BE-2400 anywhere for less than about £60) plus it'll also mean things like Mame run a bit quicker too. If it was going to be just a MythTV frontend and nothing else I would consider the Acer Aspire Revo (Atom with Nvidia chipset, supposedly it can decode 1080p video). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html