Re: [LUG] Myth TV - was Oil Immersion Cooling (OIC)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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