Brian Wood wrote: > With some recent discussion here about CPUs and costs I wonder what > the "average" cost of a MythTV machine might be. > I bet this is the most common question for those considering jumping into mythtv. I certainly wondered, and found it hard to really pin down what an adequate machine would be. I ended up establishing a budget, which I thought was a bit on the generous side, and just purchasing to that budget (well, going over a *little* ;-).
I ended up spending around $850 including shipping and tax for all-new components. My system has an AMD64 3200+ (venice core), Asus A8N-E mobo, Antec Overture II, PVR-150, GeForce 5200 video card, 512MB Ram, 200GB Seagate Sata drive. I figured for an extra $100, I'd buy in the sweet spot for CPUs, which was the biggest cost driver (I could have saved around $100 for a cheaper but adequate CPU and corresponding mobo). Hard to figure how I could have saved much more than that on new components (maybe another $25 on a cheaper disk drive, but c'mon!). All this was from newegg, which was within +/- 5% of the lowest on-line cost around. I'm generally happy with it, though the Overture is noisier than I wanted (which I would have seen if I'd done more research on it; I'm still hopeful of being able to quiet it when I finally turn my attention there). I'm also having an oddball problem which may still turn out to be hardware related, so I'm not 100% ready to recommend this combination yet. Anyway, I wanted to say that this topic is probably extremely valuable for newcomers, and hopefully is something that can get folded into the wiki (I know there's been a lot of recent talk about "personal profiles", and this data would fit nicely. I know there's a mythtv hardware database out there, and it's an OK resource, but it's missing pricing information, and doesn't seem to be all that active/current. Just my .02. john _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
