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

[Khanh Tran]

I'm running a P4 1.8Ghz, 512K cache as my sole mythfrontend/backend
system.  It has dual PVR-250s and TV out via the Asus Pundit S-video.
The CPU barely budges over 3% when watching a pre-recorded show and does
just a little more when recording two shows while watching another.  The
only time more CPU power helps is during the transcode/commercial
flagging process and playing MPEG4/xvid/divx/etc files.  

Of course, the big cpu helps during those late night recompiles too :)

-Khanh


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mike Frisch
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:52 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Dual tuners, frontend and backend doable on P4
520?

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?

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.