Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 14:00, N Dugas wrote: > >>After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing >>how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on >>the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: >> >>Make my current Myth box a backend only but also add a firewire >>connection to my DCT-6412. I then plan on setting up another Myth box >>as a frontend only. My understanding is that the frontend has lower HW >>requirements. >> >>Hardware config for my current Myth box (to become my backend) is: >> >>Mobo: A7N8X-E Deluxe >>CPU: Athlon XP 3000 >>RAM: 1G Dual DDR >>Video: ATI Radeon 9550 w/ 256M >>Disk: Seagate 200G >>Lan: D-LINK DWL-G520 Wireless NIC >>Connected to my 26" Samsung LCD HDTV. >> >>I have at my disposal (to use/swap into this box if needed, based on >>feedback): >>GeForce FX5500 w/ 256M >>Seagate 200G >>Extra 512M Dual DDR stick >> >>For my new frontend: >>Mobo: MSI KT4V-L >>CPU: Athlon XP 1800 >>RAM: 512M >>Video: Whatever is left, ATI Radeon 9550 or ATI Radeon 9550 >>Disk: Seagate 200G >>Lan: D-LINK DWL-G520 Wireless NIC >> >> >>Will this work? > > > Are you planning on doing HD? If not, your current BE/FE machine is more than > adequate to handle the PVR350 and DCT6412. >
I'm hoping to do HD since I've got a handful of HD chanels. I've been hearing that the Nvidia card should be able to do it if I enable XvMC. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
