[vdr] Re: Choosing motherboard and CPU

[Manuel Hartl <icecep@gmx.net>]

> There will be 1 or 2 Siemens DVB-C cards and one budget card inside.
are you going to use a tower or desktop?
i am using a tower now and for cooling i use slot fans...so many pci slots is a good idea :)

currently i use a7v600 mobo. it works now good for me. but because of its very recent 
chipset (kt600) - the support is not as perfect as it should be.

my criteria for the a7v600 were: many pci slots, recent chipset!? and holes in the 
mainboard for a cpu cooler, because i use heavy copper coolers ( i just can suggest this!) 
and wanted to use screws to fix it. -> by the way: the cpu stays at 45°C max on load... ( 
and the case is damped.)

> I would like to keep the idle mode power consumption low. With old K6
> based AT PC I have measured idle mode power consumption to be about
> 50W. Is this nowadays possible at all with recent motherboards,
> chipsets and CPUs?
i believe not... the cpu alone can reach 70/80 W. but i do not know about idle watts...

if you are interested in experiments...there is a free-scalable cpu freqency support in 
the new 2.6.x kernel series....
> The system will be placed in the kitchen where there are already some
> noisy devices wo the VDR box does not have to be completely silent.
> The system will need enough horsepower to play DivX:es, though. It
> will be a multimedia home server server.
i would take some recent cpu and chose a lower frontside bus frequency. so the cpu stays 
cooler (less cooling) and you save energy. say..use an athlon 2200+ (1.8ghz) and run it 
with 1,3 ghz...

i hope i could help a little bit..

bye.


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