[mythtv-users] Dell PowerEdge 400SC and ATI 8500DV

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:43 US/Pacific, John Girouard wrote:

> I appreciate the prompt replies, and now that I've gone back through 
> the archives (downloading 49MB file and searching... there's got to be 
> a better way than that!) and seen what you mean about the 
> craptasticality of the AIW cards, I certainly appreciate the kind 
> tone! Oh well... guess I'm in the market for a new capture card. PVR 
> 250 seems to get good reviews.

I'll back that. I'm extremely happy with mine.

> $299 is spendy?!?! I'd certainly add more RAM to it, drop my existing 
> ATA133 160GB drive in it, and upgrade to at least the P4 2.4, though. 
> I'm looking to replace a PIII 733 that doesn't play nice w/ Linux 
> (3com net card always gets IRQ 0, which obviously doesn't work so 
> good). Thanks for the pointers!

Well, all you said was you were going to purchase that system and throw 
an AIW in it... Like I said in another message (and you concede in this 
message), you'd need a bigger hard drive, more RAM, and then you're 
talking about upgrading the processor. That tacks on another $200 to 
your system price. And that doesn't even include a TV tuner (since the 
AIW won't work) or a decent video card (though I suppose you could just 
use the AIW). Tack on another $100-200, depending on tuner card. Oh 
yeah. You also need a sound card. Want to use MythDVD? You need a DVD 
drive too. Now you have a $600-700 system. You can do quite a bit 
better than that.

Something is definitely up w/that PIII if you can't get a 3com card to 
work. They're some of the best supported ones...

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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