>How does it sound? I am planning on using this for a front-end system. >What I'm wondering is, is it silent enough for always on in a nice >quiet house? In my case I'm not using an xbox (that's why I've changed the topic) but an Asus Pundit which seems to be a very good choice for building VCR's. http://konilope.dyndns.org/Pundit/pundit.jpg
This case (including mobo + video card(dvi+rgb) + tvout(svideo) + firewire + usb2 + powersupply + fan) cost 170 Euros in France and makes only 27dB ! I've added a Celeron 2Ghz, 256 PC2700 and a Seagate Baracuda 7 120G (the most silent HD I know). This box really rox ! I run freevo above and I love it. Some of my friends had slept close to it. I've asked if they were disturbed during the night.. They answered "Which PC are you talking about ?" ;o) I can record on the fly the TV using a 640x480 resolution, 25fps and 2000 as bitrate and it just uses 57% of my CPU. (mencoder 1.0pre3) PS: There is two PCI slots but there isn't much room around to install big TV cards. The pinnacle PCTV (old & recent models) is ok but this is quite touchy to install ;o) It could be nice to build a freevo gallery where people can post their hardware/software configuration, the average price it costs, the performances they reaches, etc.. -- Erwan Velu Linux Cluster Distribution Project Manager MandrakeSoft 43 rue d'aboukir 75002 Paris Phone Number : +33 (0) 1 40 41 17 94 Fax Number : +33 (0) 1 40 41 92 00 Web site : http://www.mandrakesoft.com OpenPGP key : http://www.mandrakesecure.net/cks/
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