[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Mar 1 17:57:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:38PM +1100, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 1/03/2013 8:01 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >On Friday, 1 March 2013, Joseph Fry wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    Any Pentium 4 2.8GHz or better should have no trouble playing US
> >    Broadcast HD streams using CPU alone.  And if you want you can
> >    always make it even better with a cheap NVIDIA card (say a used
> >    GT520) and still put a single system together for under $100.
> >
> >
> >I'd love to know where you could find a P4 these days, and one
> >that will take a PCIe nvidia graphic card...
> Plenty of them around.  Some people want a bit much for them though.

    You can get the equivalent low profile ION machines in cube PC form
from small web vendors for about $250. Such machines a a little on the
big side but they will accomodate any video card you like and can also
handle full size storage devices (HDD,DVD/BD).

> 
> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/IBM-Slim-Desktop-ThinkCentre-9210-P4-3GHz-1GB-80GB-DVD-XP-2-Serial-Ports-Network-/370565037607?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item564765be27
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