[mythtv-users] Dual tuners, frontend and backend doable on P4 520?

[James Armstrong]

Mike Frisch wrote:

>Would a Pentium 4 520 (2.8GHz, 1MB cache, 800MHz FSB) have enough
>horsepower to handle dual tuners (PVR-250 and Twinhan VP1020) as well as
>running the mythbackend and mythfrontend?
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>My proposed system would be a Dell SC420 server with 512MB DDR2 RAM,
>PCI-E Nvidia 5200-based card (I don't game and am only interested in TV
>out), and at least one SATA hard drive.
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I would think so. I was running two tuners with backend / frontend on an 
Athlon 900 just fine. I recently split and upgraded the backend to an 
Athlon 2000 with two PVR250s and a pcHDTV. The frontend is not a P4 3gig 
HT 1meg cache with 1gig memory. I only split them to do hdtv playback.

- James