What's wrong with what you have? The Mprocessors and motherboards are very expensive - to the point that I thought the cost/benefit would be an issue.
Thought about the VIA stuff? Greg On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:48:55 -0800, Kristo Kriechbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm looking to build a backend only machine that consumes the least > amount of power. My first thought is to go with something like a > Pentium-M, so if I need a little extra cpu for transcoding or > something, I can get it, but can throttle it down when I don't need > it. > > Right now, my backend/frontend is: > P3 900 MHz > 512 MB ram > 2 x Avermedia M179 (just like a PVR250) > 1 x 200 gig ide hd > 1 x 250 gig ide hd > > and I have a third 200 gig ide hd sitting around while I build this > machine. > > My main requirements: > > 1. Low low power. I don't want to be keeping the electric company in > business :-) > 2. quiet. I don't want the room this machine is in to sound like an > airport. I don't mind hacking in a bigger slower fan. > 3. ample PCI slots for my M179's and at least one IDE controller (and > maybe an hdtv card in the near future). > > I hardly ever transcode anything, and I have the mpeg2 encoder cards, > so I don't really need much raw processing power. This machine will > also share out my music, videos, etc. > > Like I said above, my first thought is to go with a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz. > I would just as easily go with AMD, as they are much cheaper, I just > don't know as much about their mobile processors. My laptop has a > Pentium-M, so I know that the cpu throttling "just works" with > cpuspeed. I've found various related threads in the archives, but > nothing that ended up verifying my thoughts. > > Thanks for any help/suggestions! > > Kristo > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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