<div>Getting up there price-wise but the HP dc7000 SFF series are simply awesome as a Myth box; small, reliable, fast and damn quiet. If you aren't doing HD ex-lease ones can be had pretty cheap now but that's kinda moving away from the 'powerful' factor you mentioned.</div>
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<div>It's a shame the BTX form factor never caught on with the home-brew market, IMHO it's very well suited to this sort of task. :(<br><br>Cheers</div>
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<div>Jeremy</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Sam Banks <<a href="mailto:dodgywhitemaori@gmail.com">dodgywhitemaori@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Guys<br><br>I am about to build a new Mythtv rig, to accomodate for the fact that multirec now works so well (and some of my arcade games are struggling a bit) and would appreciate any advice/experience regarding hardware.<br>
<br>Heres the gear I have decided on:<br><br>1tb Sata drive<br><br>4gb Ram<br><br>Technotrend S-1401 DVB-S Card<br><br>I am leaning towards a shuttle case as space is at a premium, any pro's or cons here cooling or otherwise? Any other case recommendations? <br>
<br>I am leaning towards an Intel quad core due to personal preference but would consider AMD if there was an advantage there.<br><br>I want this to be silent! That is one of the prime objectives, aside from power of course.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Sam<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.<br>P. J. O'Rourke </font><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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