Late to the game with PVR-350

[HtV]

I would assume the PVR-350 would work fine with them.

I'm afraid there is no guarantee what so ever.:eek: Take one of those machines home and try it.

[kmoore]

I upgraded the 400Mhz Celeron to a 466 then last night to a 533. I can definitely tell a difference and it's noticably faster in the GUI. I'd call the performance quite usable. Of course, I don't have a guage for how potentially fast the interface can be with real modern hardware, but from an absolute perspective, it's not frustratingly slow.

[SickBoy]

That looks like a great deal, but how can I guarantee PVR-350 compatibility?

I decided what I am going to do is wait a bit for more off lease Dell Optiplexes (the GX series, namely GX270) to show up on eBay. There are already some under $150. I use them at work and they are REALLY quiet machines. I would assume the PVR-350 would work fine with them.

Are you talking about the slim profile Optiplex models or the midtower type?

We have a lot of the former at work... I was given a 260 to take home as thanks for extra hours worked for a project, and despite the fact it'd make a happy little PVR box (with a HD upgrade), it only takes low-profile cards. I don't think your PVR350 is low profile.... I never recall hearing about one, anyway.

[FirstTeamOPS]

I don't think your PVR350 is low profile.... I never recall hearing about one, anyway.

Your absolutely right, the 350 is not a low profile card. You would need the GX260/270/280/etc tower case.

[kmoore]

Your absolutely right, the 350 is not a low profile card. You would need the GX260/270/280/etc tower case.

Yeah I was aware of that. There are some great small form factor deals to be had but conventional cards don't fit. We have the towers at work anyway.

[kmoore]

I swear I can't stop taking this computer apart.

I did what will perhaps be the final upgrade ().

384MB ram (won't take 512 for some dumb reason)
Celeron 1.1GHz (coppermine, 100MHz FSB)
All on the same motherboard as the original Celeron 400. Definite speed increase. Enough to stream over the internet (barely). Cool.

[flyswatta]

I swear I can't stop taking this computer apart.

I did what will perhaps be the final upgrade ().

Uh huh. That's what I said 2 years, 2,876 hours and lots-o-dollars ago

[FirstTeamOPS]

I did what will perhaps be the final upgrade ().

Sure... that's what I keep telling myself... every few months

[kmoore]

I guess I decided I had enough of the occasional PVR-350-related freezing. What pushed me over the edge was a 100GB hard drive that I was able to score for free. Since I was going to have to install something fresh (yeah I could have imaged the new drive with the old boot partition) I decided to give MythTV a shot.

Anyway, thanks for the help I received while I was here.

[Bathman]

I would have thought that with a 1.1 celeron, any old half decent graphics card and you would have no problems running GBPVR, Without the PVR350 buggy output.

I ran GBPVR on a 1.2 VIA C3 for years and it ran fine.