[mythtv-users] Building a Simple, Barebones, Minimalist, Cheap Backend

Kevin Bailey ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org
Mon Sep 22 15:55:02 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:38:18PM -0400, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
> Hey all. It seems my repurposed HP Pavilion is giving me some trouble,  
> and this might just be the excuse I need for a new back end system.  
> I'm looking at making something smallish (mini-tower or smaller,  
> hopefully), low powered (Geode or Atom might be cool), and cheap (Sub- 
> $250, circa-$100 hopefully). I've already got a capture card  
> (PVR-150), and a pair of hard disks (one 6GB drive for the OS, one 250  
> GB drive for recordings, both PATA), and I'm not looking for any real  
> playback capabilities (I use my laptop as an incidental front-end as  
> I'm the only user of the system). Any advice on where to find  
> hardware? I've looked around at NewEgg and TigerDirect, so far I've  
> got an OK system put together for about $125, but it's using a Via C3,  
> and I have no idea what those things are like. Any advice?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135082

AMD CPU, nVidia chipset, and RAM included - $77
2 PCI, 2 SATAII


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