PAPutzback
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Currently my 24/7 HTPC/Server is a Phenom 8850 running at the low power setting with 1 standard SATA drive and 2 750Gb WD green power drives. It has one internal 2 analog tuner card and also 2 HDHR to give me the option of 4 HD and 2 Analog simultaneous recordings.
I Know I need to get a killawatt tester to see what it is pulling but I was also wondering how small you can go in a processor before compromising its basic duties of streaming video, music and also recording TV before you start pushing the PC beyond what it can do.
I was recording three HD shows the other night and I noticed in one of my recordings that occasionally the screen would get pixelated. Now I don't know if that was due to CPU, network bandwidth, tv signal or Hard drive throughput.
My future build/upgrade I plan to swap out the 2 750Gb drives for 2 WD GP 2 terabyte drives in raid 0 and moving the OS to a small SSD. I think that will help with the HDD throughput. But I still wonder about how much the CPU has an effect on streaming, recording and playing content from the pc.
Would a WHS build with SAGE on it save power and then only have extenders access the data? Currently I use a 360 as an extender.
I Know I need to get a killawatt tester to see what it is pulling but I was also wondering how small you can go in a processor before compromising its basic duties of streaming video, music and also recording TV before you start pushing the PC beyond what it can do.
I was recording three HD shows the other night and I noticed in one of my recordings that occasionally the screen would get pixelated. Now I don't know if that was due to CPU, network bandwidth, tv signal or Hard drive throughput.
My future build/upgrade I plan to swap out the 2 750Gb drives for 2 WD GP 2 terabyte drives in raid 0 and moving the OS to a small SSD. I think that will help with the HDD throughput. But I still wonder about how much the CPU has an effect on streaming, recording and playing content from the pc.
Would a WHS build with SAGE on it save power and then only have extenders access the data? Currently I use a 360 as an extender.