[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[rob at webworxshop.com]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the hardware recommendations. For those that suggested 
setting up separate back end and front end systems, unfortunately this 
isn't an option at the moment as the amount of re-wiring required 
probably wouldn't be appreciated by my landlords.

Based on the requirements of myth, I'm now not considering a quad core, 
which will save me a considerable amount of power. The CPU I'm 
considering is the AMD A6 3500 [0]. I haven't made a decision on a 
motherboard yet and I'll be looking for a fanless graphics card which 
can do VDPAU (it doesn't need to do much more than that). I also have a 
case in mind [1].

In terms of storage, the recommended green drives have been my 
preferred drive since they came out. I've always used Western Digital 
drives and have never had a problem with them. I'm probably going to set 
up a RAID 1 setup with 2x2TB drives just in case though.

Cheers,

Rob

[0] 
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=CPUAMD3505&name=AMD-A6-3500-X3-Core-2.1GHz-3-x-1MB-L2-Cache-Socket
[1] 
http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview-specs.asp?partid=10484

On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:41:59 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:16:04 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>On 5/10/2011 10:23 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>>> Whether the wakeups work or not seems to depend on what motherboard
>>> and BIOS you have.  They mostly say they support the scheduled 
>>> wakeup
>>> feature, but only some actually work.  I tried it with my MythTV 
>>> box,
>>> and it never woke up even when I was manually setting the wakeup 
>>> time
>>> in the BIOS settings.
>>
>>Silly question, the motherboard battery was ok?
>
> Yes, the motherboard was brand new at the time, and the CMOS settings
> have been fine for years since then.  I did try clearing the CMOS 
> data
> to see if that helped, but no, it didn't.
>
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