[mythtv-users] Suitable Hardware

Mike Dodge dmikester1 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 21:01:34 UTC 2007


Since you're going with a new setup and your mobo supports SATAII, why not
go with SATAII disks and get the added performance/speed that SATA offers.
Also, SATA is just as inexpensive as its IDE counterpart nowdays.
Mike

Unless the 700GB of IDE is something you already own, then might not be
worth buying all new drives.

On 10/8/07, Mike OZ <MikeOZ at australianbyte.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I need to setup MythTV to replace a system I bought a couple of years ago.
>
> I am thinking of setting it up using Kubuntu or Linuxmce. I tried to this
> on some old hardware and failed with various hardware faults so I am going
> to buy new hardware. The hardware would be:
>
>
>    - CPU Intel BX80557E2140 Pentium Dual Core E2140 CPU, 1.6 GHz, FSB
>    800MHz, 1MB Cache, 65W, Socket LGA775
>    -
>    - Mother Board Gigabyte GA-P31-S3L GA-P31-S3L M/b - P31, 1333MHz
>    FSB, Dual DDR2-800, PCI Express x16, SATA II, GbE, LAN, 8Ch, ATX
>    -
>    - Video NVDIA Gigabyte GV-NX72G512P2 GF 7200GS PCI-E 256MB 64-bit
>    DDR2, DVI, VGA, HDTV, Heatsink
>    -
>    - Memory Kingston KVR800D2N5K2/1G 1GB KIT 800MHz DDR2 NON ECC 240pin
>    UNBUFFERED DIMM
>    -
>    - DVD Writer Sony DVD awg170ab2 dvd+rw/+r, dvd-rw/-r int
>    -
>    - TV Card FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express
>    -
>    - 700Gb of IDE disk.
>
>
> Could anyone please advise me if this is suitable hardware or tell me
> where I should address this question?
>
> *Mike O'Ceirin*
> *Canberra*
>
> *"Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide"*
>
>
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