Required adds: processor, memory Optional adds: hard drive & CD/DVD (or diskless) , tuner
Only room for a single hard drive, but it has a number of USB and 1394 ports for external storage. Room for two PCI cards, but it's tight. It's a bit touchy getting the cables in and hooked up to the hard drive and the CD. The Pundit-R supports both SATA & EIDE. NOTE: The Pundit-R is ATI IGP based. This is workign well for myth but so far I cannot play America's Army on it and it seems that with certain OpenGL setups the machine crashes. Take care, Mark On 6/25/05, Garry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My interim solution yesterday was to use a little bit of that blue > > painters tape - used for mashing off windows and such - and put just a > > piece over the top of the led. The light is now dimmer and a more > > pleseant indigo rather than the laser beam blue. Since it's just > > behind the front plastic it's taped to the chassis. I'll see how long > > it goes before it dries out and drops down. > > > > - Mark > > > > On 6/25/05, Jeroen Brosens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I remember now that I too found those leds a bit too harsh; therefore I > > > took a anti-static dark, see-through pc hardware bag and folded a piece of > > > it 8 times or so and taped it in front of those leds. Now the light is dim > > > enough to not be totally blinded by it when we're watching tv from the > > > couch. So don't throw away those hdd bags folks..! > > > > > > -- Jeroen > > > > > > Mark Knecht schreef: > > > On 6/24/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 6/24/05, Jeroen Brosens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > For a good image quality: do not use SiS. The chip doesn't support any > > > form of vsync control, neither hardware or software; even a > > > vga-rgb/scart cable doesn't give optimal results. Therefore, tv-out > > > using the bob deinterlacer (the only filter producing fluid motion) goes > > > jittering every now and then, which I found to be quite annoying. I have > > > the Pundit non-R and placed an AGP nVidia GeForce MX4000 card in it; now > > > it's picture perfect. Search a bit for 'sis' and 'bobdeint' in the > > > mailing archives and read my posts about it. > > > > > > For the rest of the components, the Pundit is an excellent choice. I > > > have one standing next to a Philips 16:9 tv; both of them silver and > > > blue leds, nice :) > > > > > > I had to disconnect those LEDs ... too bright for me, esp the HDD one! > > > > > > Boy, I agree with that. We hate the power one actually. We're forever > > > putting something in front of the unit on the TV to block it. I'm > > > looking at placing some sort of putty or something behind the cover > > > but in front of the LED. Since the LED doesn't get hot I figure some > > > sort of semi-transparent stuff would help. > > > > > > I had a new EIDE Seagate drive I got from Newegg die two days ago so I > > > went to frys and got a SATA drive yesterday to replace it. I'm > > > rebuilding the system now and the HDD light doesn't light when the > > > SATA drive is in use. Similar for you? > > > > > > > > > > > > I think either the Pundit-S or the newer Pundit-R will work fine as a > > > frontend/backend combo. The only piece of hardware in my Pundit-R that > > > is not supported is the ENE multicard reader. > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > I like these little machines. My two remaining desktop machines, one > > > Linux and the other Windows, use only 1 or 2 PCI cards. If these > > > mythfrontend machines work out I may scrap the desktops, steal the > > > hardware and just go with a small rack of these things. They're nice > > > and reasonably quiet, although I'd like to try out some sort of CPU > > > frequency scaling to see if I can get to an idle mode where the fan > > > doesn't run when the machine isn't in real use. Either that of maybe > > > some sort of suspend mode. > > > > > > Take care, > > > Mark > > These Pundits sound really cool (aside from the blinding LEDs). I > might just pick one of these up... > If I understand correctly, you just need to add a hard drive and tuner, right? > Is there room for more than one hdd? > What is the difference between the Pundit and Pundit-R? > > --Garry > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
