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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm seeing Evo D51S units, with a 1.7 Ghz. Celeron and 512MB RAM for<br>$89, 2Ghz. for $99.<br><br>Anybody using one of these as a frontend? I'm wondering if it can<br>
handle HD. An AGP video card capable of XvMC might help.<br><br>beww<br> </div>
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<div>I can't say about the 510, but I have three Compaq D530 2.8 Ghz with Nvidia AGP cards that do HD without XvMC using about 75% CPU running 0.20.2. One outputs 1080i (and is a remote backend), one is 720p (and is the master back nd) and one is S-Video (Front end only). The master backend is a tower, the other two are Small Form Factor (SFF)</div>
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<div>I have a fourth that is testing Suse 10.3 and Mythtv 0.21 right now. It does HD (1080i) at 73% CPU. It stutters using the High Quality Play back profile (105% CPU), but I have not spent any time trying to optimize it yet either. I have not tried to use them with the built-in graphics. I think what really helps is having two memory stick to allow for faster dual channel memory access.</div>
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<div>The run relatively quiet, with the HD generation the most noise. My frontends are the SFF, not the Ultra Slimline; the Ultras may work, but they do not have an AGP slot. You can find many D530/2.8 Ghz for ~$200 on E-BAY</div>
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<div>Tony</div>