Making the jump to GB-PVR

[tnkrtrn]

I've finally decided to make the jump to GB-PVR. I've got a few questions that I'm hoping I can get some direction on.

I got a spare pc from work. It's a P3 1ghz with 512megs of ram. I'm going to have 2 hard drives (120gig and 160gig combined into one big 280gig hard drive). I'm also going to purchase a WinTV PVR 250MCE card and a MediaMVP unit.

Do you guys think my pc is under powered? I ask because some of the specs I've read for the card are above what I have right now.

Quote[/b] ]Processor requirements: Pentium® IV processor 1.2GHz or faster for TV pause with full screen playback

I also don't have a powerful video card in this pc. Just some nVidia based 64meg card. Nothing other than GB-PVR will be running on this machine and it has Windows 2000 installed on it.

[tblackwe]

meh. I personally doubt it. I've been running a athlon 1.2 with no strain what so ever. load everything up and try it out. you can install the software without a tv-in card.
the wintv card will be doing the hard work on the card, so that shouldnt change it to much
I dont think the mvp should make a big requirements change either, but I dont know as much about those.

[bluesxman]

Quote[/b] (tnkrtrn @ Feb. 15 2005,02:48)]Processor requirements: Pentium® IV processor 1.2GHz or faster for TV pause with full screen playback

The minimum requirements are for playback - this is done in software as the PVR250 does not have a hardware MPEG decoder. As you have a MVP and presumably will be doing all your playback through that, you needn't worry about it!

I think Sub has said previously that a 1ghz processor is about the minimum to run GB-PVR.