Looks good to me apart from the overture case, I think they are pants, no where near enough air flow and not as quiet as I'd like.
Greg > > To all the experts out there. > > My goal is to have a PVR to record OTA ATSC/NTSC and Firewire > from a Cable STB. Would like ability to record 2/watch 1 > w/pause-rewind etc. > (mostly ATSC) with plans to have enough disk space to save > things until BlueRay/????? is available for archive. > > I had not done enough research, when I started, and planned > to do it all with XP and MCE 2005 w/ATI tuners. Well, that's > not going to happen so I've spent the last month reading > forums, looking for software to do it. > I looked a SAGE, the MDP-120/130 software etc. The only > thing I've found that even has a chance of doing all of this > is "MythTV". I have limited experience with Linux so that > concerns me, a little, but my main concern is: will my system > support the (software encode/decode)of 2ea HD-3000s and a PVR-250/350. > > The equipment I bought is as follows: > > Intel D915PBL 800 FSB motherboard > P4 550 3.4g CPU > 1024m DDR2/533 memory > eVGA eGeFORCE 6600 Video (PCIe x16) > 300g SATA HD - to start (room for 3 more drives) Audio is > on-board Intel "High Def." (7.1 I think) Plextor PX-716A > double layer cd/dvd Mandrake 10.1 Antec Overture case > (Haven't bought the tuners yet) > > Everyone seems to be happy with the pcHDTV tuners and the > PVR-250/350's but I'm concerned with the heavy CPU workload > of the HD-3000's in a possible situation of 2 HDTV recording > sessions while watching a recorded HDTV program. Is there > any chance the MDP-120/130s, with hardware encode/decode, are > supported by MythTV? Also, does MythTV support Firewire? Do > I have a better choice of tuners? > > Well, that's probably more than anyone wants to digest at one time. > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Richard > >
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