[mythtvnz] Front-end hardware

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hadley Rich" <hads at nice.net.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Front-end hardware


On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 13:06 +1200, Russ McMullan wrote:
> So it's looking like $900 per installation.. which is a bit high. I'd
> like to do each room for around $500-$600.....  so that's about $200
> per front-end......
>
> Any ideas?

I believe you'll need to either increase your budget or decrease the
number of frontends.

or....change your requirements!

A PCI VDPAU card enables and recycles much older hardware, there is a report of an AMD 1.4Ghz CPU running 30% an 8400 at 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU

Does that suggest a 700M CPU would run @ 60% - and even lower CPU's would also run? (CPU cooling might be an issue though?)

9400 PCI cards (also LP) are available, I will receive in the next few days...

Kind regards
David