Epia 600 / Very slow PC

[nimod]

Hi everyone.
I bought a AverMedia 150 MCE a few days ago and it works just great with GBPVR. I'm very impressed by the software. I've installed it on an old PC, with a 800 Mhz CPU and it works fine.
I just want to record things and program them with the nice TV-Guide interface.

Now my question:
I have an old Epia 600 with 600 Mhz CPU. I also have a passive Power Unit for it, so it would be amazingly quiet.

Will GBpvr work on this slow PC? I don't need any timeshifting or Live-Tv stuff and my X-Box plays the recordings in a nice quality.

Greetings,
nimod

[sub]

It'd work, but it'd be way slow. The recommended minimum is a 1GHz PIII. The EPIA 6000 is about the equivalent of a 400Mhz celeron.

[nimod]

Thanks for your fast reply. I'll try that tomorrow.
I think a slow gui is not so bad. I'll let you know, how it works.

[erik]

I am running GBPVR on a 800MHz VIA Samual2 CPU (about 400MHz Celeron performance)
Recording uses VERY little CPU, the GBPVR UI is sluggish but the real problem is the MPEG playback performance, however.....
I use the slow PC only for recording, web based control and as a file server.
This works perfect!!!!

[nimod]

Hi.
I installed the system at the weekend and it works pretty good. The GUI is slow, but not really slower, that on the 800 Mhz AMD. I still have some problems with some strange reboots, but that may be the passive power suply.
The combination of the EPIA as recording station and the X-Box as a playback station works just perfect. The Quality on the X-Box is amazing.
I'll update you later.

[borgs5]

[QUOTE=nimod]Hi everyone.
Now my question:
I have an old Epia 600 with 600 Mhz CPU. I also have a passive Power Unit for it, so it would be amazingly quiet.

Will GBpvr work on this slow PC? I don't need any timeshifting or Live-Tv stuff and my X-Box plays the recordings in a nice quality.
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I have it working on a 5000, which is even slower, but I would recommend that, instead of using the GBPVR client application to tell it what to record, that you network the machine and set up the recordings using a web browser from another machine on the network. My EPIA also doubles as my internet router.

[nimod]

Hi.
I did that, and it worked well, but the computer rebooted very often. I disabled everything in the Bios and installed new drivers, but I couldn't get it to work. Now I'm using an old 600 Mhz AMD and it works. Loud, but faster and much more stable. And the cool thing is, that I have a few PCI slot now. So I'll plug in an old 5.1 soundcard, an old Geforce4 with an excelent tv-out and an Mpeg encoder card (if I can get the old creative dxr2 to work)