[mythtvnz] IDE-SATA adaptor?

tortise tortise at paradise.net.nz
Sat Jul 28 09:37:02 BST 2012


On 28/07/2012 8:01 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
> My entire motherboard, CPU and 8 Gibytes of RAM was only about $550,
> so I think it was a very cost effective upgrade from my old
> motherboard's 4 SATA ports.  The new CPU and extra RAM means that
> commercial skip processing happens in real time on up to four
> recordings at once, which really cuts down on the disk accesses as the
> data is all still in RAM cache.  So I would recommend seriously
> considering a motherboard upgrade as the best option.

That's super cool Stephen, what is the new CPU and did you add a video 
card or use the the M/bds video chip (assuming you use the backend as a 
frontend)?



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