[mythtv-users] Re: Yet another noobie sanity check ;-)

[Brad]

Just in case any other new users are out there following this thread, 
I thought I'd post what I ended up with. I finally (after *way* too 
much deliberation) decided on a Pundit-based system:
	- Pundit barebones (not Pundit-r)
	- celeron 2.4
	- 512Mb (PC3200, which seems to be working ok)
	- 200G Seagate Barracuda Drive
	- PVR-250
	- old CD drive for linux install (to be replaced with DVD-ROM 
or DVD writable later)
In the end, I chose this route because the pundit is the smallest, 
most full featured case that I could find while still allowing up to 
2 PVR250s. It appears to be reasonably quiet (except when the CD 
drive is spinning up - wow, that's loud). I gave up on my quest for a 
system with more PCI slots available because I just couldn't get a 
system all together that had the features I wanted, in the form 
factor, for under $1000  (cdn). Total cost came in about $870 (CDN), 
which still gives me about $130 to play within my "budget".

I haven't actually got MythTV running on it yet, but just installed 
Fedora Core 1 last night. It went very smoothly and I've been really 
impressed with the Pundit so far... it was a bit rough fitting all 
that stuff in such a small case, but it appears to have come through 
it ok. If I experience any serious problems I'll try and add them to 
this thread for future Pundit owners. ;-)

Brad