[ale] Best processor for MythTV?

[Chris Farris]

Spend the money on HD rather than memory. Frys has a special on a 300GB 
drive for $80 (Friday the 19th only).

Chris

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Hey man, after your astounding presentation at ALE in April I was 
> inspired to start building my own mythTV box.  The Grand Plan is to 
> change my wife's  TV viewing habits so that they intrude less into my life.
> 
> I've acquired a  Shuttle "Zen" ST62K XPC barebones ( 
> http://sys.us.shuttle.com/ModelsK.aspx) and I'm now wondering what 
> processor to put into it. Money is not as important to me as cooling. 
> I'd also like it to have enough muscle to do HDTV when the Dread Day of 
> HDTV Reckoning comes.   After I get the machine running I'll use 
> KnoppMyth for the install.
> 
> I figure on maxing out the memory (heck, it's cheap), and starting out 
> with a 40-gb hard drive I have lyin' around the house. If my wife takes 
> to this thing, I'll probably actually spend money on the hard-drive 
> part. And of course I was gonna get a Hauppauge PVR 350 for the actual 
> video encoding/decoding stuff. I have no current plans to add on the 
> khoul hi-tech bellz & whistles Jesse demonstrated. Unless, of course, I 
> get real ambitious..
>  
> Your thoughts?
> 
> -- CHS
> 
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