2005-01-29, 04:37 AM
Hi id like the ability to record two shows and play one back using wintv pvr 150's and still have plenty of power left over. Im looking at a Semperon 2500 or 2800? or do i need something more powerful
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2005-01-29, 04:40 AM
thats powerful enough, however with video intel are a better since they have higher MHz, AMD are better for games and stuff. but if you want to stick with AMD the 2500 should be fine, thats enough speed, the real thing it will come down to is the HDD and RAM. just make sure to keep your hdd defraged.
2005-01-29, 05:37 PM
If you have a choice, go with SATA for your HDD. I bought a 250GB Hitachi Deskstar from newegg for my video stuff. It's easily 2X faster than my ATA main drive
2005-01-30, 06:22 AM
I'm thinking of setting up GBPVR on my old Duron 950Mhz. I'm planning to buy Hauppauge PVR-350 as it does both hardware encoding and decoding and also has TV out. I don't have TV out on my box.
Since the PVR-350 handles most of the load (encoding as well as decoding) do you think my duron can handle the rest of the load without any hiccup?
2005-01-30, 06:44 AM
[b Wrote:Quote[/b] (zorro @ Jan. 30 2005,00:22)]I'm thinking of setting up GBPVR on my old Duron 950Mhz. I'm planning to buy Hauppauge PVR-350 as it does both hardware encoding and decoding and also has TV out. I don't have TV out on my box.Without too much difficulty. I built my original around a Duron 850/Hauppauge 350 & I got decent performance. Just remember that you want to have lots of memory (minimum 1GB).
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2005-01-30, 06:53 AM
512mb of ram is enough, 1gb you dont really need, it will help but 512 is enough. im running a 350 with 256mb and it runs fine.
2005-01-30, 01:34 PM
i didnt say it was a waste of RAM, i said that it would run fine with 512meg of RAM. i have a system running fine with 256meg of ram. of course if you are using a mvp you would need more, but if you are building a standalone device just as a pvr (which i think he is) 512 is enough.
2005-01-30, 01:45 PM
its running xp pro, nis 2003, using 350 for input/output and 150. so it doesnt need a lot of stuff, everything is pretty much done via hardware, cpu is celeron d 330. and it runs fine. sure ill upgrade to 512 once i start using it for games and stuff (first need a better gfx card), but just to run gbpvr, and using 350 you can get away with 256 quite easily. but 512 should be the recommended amount, if its a true pvr unit and not running on a main machine off a mvp, then yeah need you'd gigabytes.
2005-01-30, 03:59 PM
512MB is enough. I've got it paired with an Athlon XP 2500+ and a PVR-250 (although I would love a gig of RAM; probably my next purchase after more storage) and it runs GBPVR as well as Stepmania and a bunch of other emulators just fine.
GB-PVR v1.1.5, 1x Hauppauge PVR-150 (v.2.0.48.25037), 2x Hauppuage PVR-500MCE (v.2.0.48.25037), Athlon XP 2500+@3200+, 1GB DDR RAM, Diamond AMD Radeon HD2600 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP (v7.7), NVIDIA nforce2 Ultra 400 Chipset (v5.10), Chaintech AV-710 (v500b), Windows XP Home w/SP2, Microsoft .NET 2.0, DirectX 9.0c (Aug '07), NVIDIA PureVideo decoders (v.1.02-223), SchedulesDirect, Dell 2405FPW; DVI
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2005-01-30, 06:38 PM
Well i decided to go with a really nice setup just to be ready for tommorrow and HDTV. Athlon 64 3800+ with 1 gig i have cool and quiet enabled and its doing very nicely. Now the question becomes this i also have a dishnetwork sat. system is there a way to watch it from gb-pvr through the composite input on my WinTV PVR 150?
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