2007-02-12, 07:47 PM
Hello,
I am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would like to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III collecting dust that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It only has an onboard video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be upgraded correct?
Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I need a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I would like to hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at all possible - do they even make a vanilla PCI card that will handle this?
I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be sufficient?
Also, while my knowledge of gbpvr is very limited, does it have the same type of network back end/front end capablities of MythTV? Where can I find more info on this?
Any and all info would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would like to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III collecting dust that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It only has an onboard video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be upgraded correct?
Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I need a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I would like to hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at all possible - do they even make a vanilla PCI card that will handle this?
I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be sufficient?
Also, while my knowledge of gbpvr is very limited, does it have the same type of network back end/front end capablities of MythTV? Where can I find more info on this?
Any and all info would be appreciated.
Thanks.