[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Douglas Pearless]

If you can run 3 x cat5e from another location to your living room, I'd recommend putting a dual core + NVIDIA GT200 or better backend/front end box with your tuner cards somewhere the sound doesn't matter.

Run a USB over cat5 (about $50 for a pair of converters) for IR and HDMI over 2 x cat 5 (these are under $100 for a transmitter and receiver).  This means there is ZERO sound in the lounge, and if you want to, you can add a USB DVD for movie playback.

This is what I have and it has a high WAF (only a tiny IR receiver is visible under the TV).

If your USB over cat5 is great than 5m, add ferrite noise suppressor at either end to counter any RFI picked up by the cables (the HDMI transmitters and receivers seem to be OK with a 15m run)

Cheers
Douglas.
On 5/10/2011, at 11:19 AM, David Moore wrote:

> On 04/10/11 22:04, Rob Connolly wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm moving towards buiding a dedicated Myth box/home server system and
>> am looking for hardware recommendations. ...
>> 
> 
> The noisiest fans in my system are the case fans. They're only 80 mm and 
> one runs constantly. Avoid small fans at all cost IMHO. I have a fanless 
> video card and 120 mm fan on the power supply.
> 
> I have 3 Western Digital drives: 500 MB, 1 TB and 2 TB. They're all 
> Green drives and so far I've had no problems with them.
> 
> My Asus motherboard has onboard video but it was no problem to disable 
> it when I put in a better video card.
> 
> Some people like to leave their systems on 24/7 but I like to save the 
> planet :) so I have mine set up to power down after I log off and power 
> up again when myth needs to record something.
> 
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