As far as quiet, possibly lower power, you might squeeze the base system onto a compact flash drive. Set the recording drives to sleep when not in use.
You could look into solar panels too :-)
Regards, JJ
On 17-Jan-2005, at 01:38, Greg Cope wrote:
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
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