[mythtv-users] Low power backend suggestions?

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 01:38:15 EST 2005


What's wrong with what you have?

The Mprocessors and motherboards are very expensive - to the point
that I thought the cost/benefit would be an issue.

Thought about the VIA stuff?

Greg


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:48:55 -0800, Kristo Kriechbaum
<klk+myth at robotics.caltech.edu> wrote:
> So I'm looking to build a backend only machine that consumes the least
> amount of power.  My first thought is to go with something like a
> Pentium-M, so if I need a little extra cpu for transcoding or
> something, I can get it, but can throttle it down when I don't need
> it.
> 
> Right now, my backend/frontend is:
> P3 900 MHz
> 512 MB ram
> 2 x Avermedia M179 (just like a PVR250)
> 1 x 200 gig ide hd
> 1 x 250 gig ide hd
> 
> and I have a third 200 gig ide hd sitting around while I build this
> machine.
> 
> My main requirements:
> 
> 1. Low low power.  I don't want to be keeping the electric company in
> business :-)
> 2. quiet.  I don't want the room this machine is in to sound like an
> airport.  I don't mind hacking in a bigger slower fan.
> 3. ample PCI slots for my M179's and at least one IDE controller (and
> maybe an hdtv card in the near future).
> 
> I hardly ever transcode anything, and I have the mpeg2 encoder cards,
> so I don't really need much raw processing power.  This machine will
> also share out my music, videos, etc.
> 
> Like I said above, my first thought is to go with a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz.
> I would just as easily go with AMD, as they are much cheaper, I just
> don't know as much about their mobile processors.  My laptop has a
> Pentium-M, so I know that the cpu throttling "just works" with
> cpuspeed.  I've found various related threads in the archives, but
> nothing that ended up verifying my thoughts.
> 
> Thanks for any help/suggestions!
> 
> Kristo
> 
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