I'm (finally) going to order the remaining components for my Mythbox. The
150 is here, the 2xSkystar2 shouldn't be too far away (Nick Read is a
generous, good man), and I only have a few remaining quibbles.
My current build plan is as follows :-
Motherboard - Asrock 775V88+ - $114
A nice, ol' fashioned mobo with gazillions of PCI slots and an AGP
slot that will still support not-too-old CPUs.
GFX -- Gigabyte FX5200 - $87
It'll dissuade my family from trying to play UT2k4 on it, and it
does TV out. Combine that with $80-$90, and I'm convinced.
TwinMOS 512MB DDR400 - $97
One stick for $97? I can remember when it cost $100+ for 1MB, in
four sticks!
Intel Celeron D 331 - $115
Nice 'n cheap. I don't plan on transcoding, and I'll be using
PVR150s (hardware MPEG2) and Skystar2s (I'm willing to assume hardware
MPEG2 on these, considering Technisat pimp them as TV cards.)
Seagate 300G - $216
The only major spendy item. I don't want a Maxtor that will die
right after recording Something Important, and I don't want a TinyDrive
that will store two shows before choking.
LiteOn DVDRW - about $100
I'll mainly use it for reading audio CDs and movie DVDs, but once
I figure out how to make creating DVDs of recorded content easier for my
non-linux-knowing family, it'll burn stuff too.
Things I already have :-
PVR150MCE
Case and PSU (3R brand, might replace these in future)
IBM keyb (not a good one, but meh) and Genius mouse
display for installation and testing :-)
Tentative 2xSkystar2
My major question is hardware compatibility. Will Debian play nice with the
Asrock, and will the SATA-2 hdd be readable?
The AtomicTV CD (custom KnoppMyth magazine coverCD that doesn't recognise
my damn PVR150MCE, no ivtv) doesn't recognise my SATA storage drive either,
so I think this is a valid question. Last time I installed Linux, it was to
my P-90 Toshiba which has oldfashioned IDE and a very oldfashioned chipset.
Another minor question is whether I can do better in terms of
performance-cost optimisation.
--
Alan Podjursky ICQ 24423014
"Yay, evil evil! Happy torture!" -- Gwyneth
"When in doubt, use brute force." -- Ken Thompson
http://www.fanfiction.net/~mercva
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150 is here, the 2xSkystar2 shouldn't be too far away (Nick Read is a
generous, good man), and I only have a few remaining quibbles.
My current build plan is as follows :-
Motherboard - Asrock 775V88+ - $114
A nice, ol' fashioned mobo with gazillions of PCI slots and an AGP
slot that will still support not-too-old CPUs.
GFX -- Gigabyte FX5200 - $87
It'll dissuade my family from trying to play UT2k4 on it, and it
does TV out. Combine that with $80-$90, and I'm convinced.
TwinMOS 512MB DDR400 - $97
One stick for $97? I can remember when it cost $100+ for 1MB, in
four sticks!
Intel Celeron D 331 - $115
Nice 'n cheap. I don't plan on transcoding, and I'll be using
PVR150s (hardware MPEG2) and Skystar2s (I'm willing to assume hardware
MPEG2 on these, considering Technisat pimp them as TV cards.)
Seagate 300G - $216
The only major spendy item. I don't want a Maxtor that will die
right after recording Something Important, and I don't want a TinyDrive
that will store two shows before choking.
LiteOn DVDRW - about $100
I'll mainly use it for reading audio CDs and movie DVDs, but once
I figure out how to make creating DVDs of recorded content easier for my
non-linux-knowing family, it'll burn stuff too.
Things I already have :-
PVR150MCE
Case and PSU (3R brand, might replace these in future)
IBM keyb (not a good one, but meh) and Genius mouse
display for installation and testing :-)
Tentative 2xSkystar2
My major question is hardware compatibility. Will Debian play nice with the
Asrock, and will the SATA-2 hdd be readable?
The AtomicTV CD (custom KnoppMyth magazine coverCD that doesn't recognise
my damn PVR150MCE, no ivtv) doesn't recognise my SATA storage drive either,
so I think this is a valid question. Last time I installed Linux, it was to
my P-90 Toshiba which has oldfashioned IDE and a very oldfashioned chipset.
Another minor question is whether I can do better in terms of
performance-cost optimisation.
--
Alan Podjursky ICQ 24423014
"Yay, evil evil! Happy torture!" -- Gwyneth
"When in doubt, use brute force." -- Ken Thompson
http://www.fanfiction.net/~mercva
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