[ale] Best processor for MythTV?

[Charles Shapiro]

Wow! Khoul! Some of my buds are already at Fry's, I told 'em to pick me up
one. Thanks for the tip!

-- CHS


On 5/19/06, Chris Farris <chris at vitalpowers.com> wrote:
>
> Spend the money on HD rather than memory. Frys has a special on a 300GB
> drive for $80 (Friday the 19th only).
>
> Chris
>
> Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > Hey man, after your astounding presentation at ALE in April I was
> > inspired to start building my own mythTV box.  The Grand Plan is to
> > change my wife's  TV viewing habits so that they intrude less into my
> life.
> >
> > I've acquired a  Shuttle "Zen" ST62K XPC barebones (
> > http://sys.us.shuttle.com/ModelsK.aspx) and I'm now wondering what
> > processor to put into it. Money is not as important to me as cooling.
> > I'd also like it to have enough muscle to do HDTV when the Dread Day of
> > HDTV Reckoning comes.   After I get the machine running I'll use
> > KnoppMyth for the install.
> >
> > I figure on maxing out the memory (heck, it's cheap), and starting out
> > with a 40-gb hard drive I have lyin' around the house. If my wife takes
> > to this thing, I'll probably actually spend money on the hard-drive
> > part. And of course I was gonna get a Hauppauge PVR 350 for the actual
> > video encoding/decoding stuff. I have no current plans to add on the
> > khoul hi-tech bellz & whistles Jesse demonstrated. Unless, of course, I
> > get real ambitious..
> >
> > Your thoughts?
> >
> > -- CHS
> >
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