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Re: Questions: Building a dedicated personal video recorder (PVR)

Posted by Bob on 03/09/06 17:35

On 9 Mar 2006 08:21:55 -0800, sorry_no_email@yahoo.com wrote:

>On the Celeron vs. P4 debate, my belief is that the Celeron is
>perfectly ok for what you want to do, but I know P4 believers will
>scoff. Let them scoff and save yourself some money. Absolutely worst
>case, you can swap it out later and use the Celeron on another box.

Get the faster P4 memory - it's about the same price. Then you can
upgrade using the same RAM. Eg, get DDR400 SDRAM

>Finally, it might be easier to just buy a box with enough available PCI
>slots to do what you want. Chances are that it will be quieter than a
>custom built box, and you may save yourself LOTS of headaches.
>Building my box took *AT LEAST* 100 hours of my time with all the
>screwing around I did. Having a warranty and support is also nice.
>Your choice, and good luck.

Check out Directron.com. They are a custom builder and have some boxes
already put together.



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