[vox] Good quiet hardware for Myth TV

[Brian Lavender]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
> On 04/21/2011 11:39 AM, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > Wes' presentation Monday night got me thinking that I should
> 
> Sadly I missed it.
> 
> > build a Myth TV box. I guess the biggest thing I am thinking about is
> > noise and size, similar to my existing Tivo box. It is very quiet.
> > Any recommendations on cases and fans?
> 
> Well the cooler your CPU/GPU is the easier silent cooling is.  I've seen two 
> approaches.  Some folks have a big beefy machine with tons of disk/cpu for 
> ripping/transcoding/hdtv cards and a thin client (just for video out/remote 
> control).  Others go with a single box.  If you want near silent, a couple 
> disks, and a CPU that's good at compression/decompression/transcoding and 
> related duties I'd consider this:
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/silverstone-gd05

I think I will start with the single box. The multi-box way sounds like
the way to go, but the project would probably never get off the ground.

What about remote controls? 

brian
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