I'm finally building my myth tv box, due to getting some money (honest this
time! I even bought the hard drives and combo drive already!). My goals
for this box are large- I want it to be able to do at least 3 simultaneous
streams (2 recordings and 1 live TV), and to be usable as a build box (when
not doing quite as much work) and home server. I also want to not have to
upgrade this thing for a few years.
Can anyone with any experience look over my planned specs and tell me whats
missing/needed/overkill?
In order of importance:
RAM- 2 or 4 GB (deciding) DDR3200, dual channel motherboard
Processor- Athlon 64 dual core 3800 (I think the dual core is important,
it will allow myth to use 1 core and me to use 1 core).
Hard drives- 2 250GB SATA300 7200 rpm 16 MB cache drives in Raid-1
configuration (I don't want to be losing all my shows. I believe in
permanent time shifts :)
PVR cards- 1 happengauge 350 card (so I have the fm tuner), 1 250. Do I
need a 3rd to get the 3rd stream, or can the processor handle it alone?
video card- low end nvidia card, whatever's cheap. This is not a gaming pc,
after all. I'll use the TV out of the 350 for the tv, and the video card as
a second display for actual work. And yes, I know getting X to do that is
probably a major nightmare. I also know that X can probably do it, its
obscure configuration option #5439852. Help appreciated.
sound- onboard, or whatever's cheap if onboard has issues with Linux
ethernet- on board
My main worry is PVR cards- if I need 3 for 3 streams, I need to get a PCI
motherboard instead of a pci express, which means an older chipset. Any
guidance for me?
Gabe
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