--- Sean Cier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm finally chucking the wretched XBox that has served as my living > room > frontend for far too long, and building a proper machine. I want > HDTV > support (only have an SDTV there at the moment, and no HD sources, > but the > latter will hopefully change before long, and the former will > undoubtedly be > replaced some day). That means a hefty processor; I'm planning on > going > Athlon 64. I'll have a hard drive just to avoid the headaches of > remote > boot, but it'll spin down and presumably not be a factor heat-wise. > > The catch is, I want to put this in my armoire-style TV cabinet. > That means > either: > -- in a shelf under/over the TV (~5" high X 27" wide x 20" deep, but > a case > must be no more than 4.2" high to actually be able to get it in > there), > which is open on the front but enclosed on the sides/rear/top/bottom, > or > -- in the cabinet area, in which case it'd have a whole half of the > cabinet > to itself (17"w x 19"h x 21" deep), but apart from a 1" vertical > wire-access > slit in the rear, the doors will be closed and it'll be completely > enclosed > effectively 24/7. > >> With no tuners and such, the hardware demands are relatively light > and I > never anticipate them growing too far (though perhaps evolving with > new > video cards, new processors, etc someday) -- but I want something > solid that > isn't going to give me grief, and something that'll last a while > without > going completely obsolete. And, I want *full* Myth > PVR/music/DVD/video > functionality -- no embedded hardware that'll only do half of what my > other > frontends will. Well, the one thing that might be a sticker is how intensively you plan on using it as a DVD player. If you use that a lot, then I'd recommend putting the Mythbox in the exposed location, for easy access. That means the narrow spot, and that meants getting a very low-profile case. This would cramp your expansion plans, but you'd still probably be able to fit in an AGP card, HDD, and DVD drive, which I guess would be all you would need for a frontend. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
