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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here. |
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Estimated Hardware/Requirements???
OS - Win2K with SP4 Video = ATI X800-XL AGP video Card CPU = Barton Mobile XP-M CPU (2600+) at 2GHz Motherboard = Asus A7N8X-E Motherboard Video = JVC HDTV CRT (probably 540P, but not yet tested) 1 Gig of Corsair PC3200 C2 DDR Tuners - one 500 MC for SDTV and one (Avermedia A180 or VBox DTA-151) for HDTV. (Note that I may later upgrade to the ATI 650 Pro if reasonably priced). I have a couple questions for hardware: 1.) What HDTV tuner is better - Avermedia A180 or VBox DTA-151? 2.) I saw references to 3 GHz CPU needed for HDTV viewing, but thought that my current system may still be OK for HDTV recording and viewing using DXVA (I assume the ATI card can do DXVA with SAGE?). Also - I don't plan on using placeshifter with HDTV, as I did hear that you really need 3GHz performance for that. So does anyone know for sure if my above CPU/Video combination would be ok for viewing recorded HDTV from either of the above HDTV tuners? I spent a great deal of the day reading posts and learned quite a bit, but am still stuck with the above questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated ![]() |
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Your system should be powerful enough. Worst case scenario is that you end up using overlay rather than FSE, but your vid card should be poweful enough. As for HD cards, I do not have either (I use a fusionlite), but the Vbox seems to be the card of choice for a lot of people here.
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Sage Server: AMD Athlon II 630, Asrock 785G motherboard, 3GB of RAM, 500GB OS HD in RAID 1 and 2 - 750GB Recording Drives, HDHomerun, Avermedia HD Duet & 2-HDPVRs, and 9.0TB storage in RAID 5 via Dell Perc 5i for DVD storage Source: Clear QAM and OTA for locals, 2-DishNetwork VIP211's Clients: 2 Sage HD300's, 2 Sage HD200's, 2 Sage HD100's, 1 MediaMVP, and 1 Placeshifter |
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Thanks
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I apologize, I should have noticed. I didn't even pay attention to your operating system. Glad you noticed that!
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Sage Server: AMD Athlon II 630, Asrock 785G motherboard, 3GB of RAM, 500GB OS HD in RAID 1 and 2 - 750GB Recording Drives, HDHomerun, Avermedia HD Duet & 2-HDPVRs, and 9.0TB storage in RAID 5 via Dell Perc 5i for DVD storage Source: Clear QAM and OTA for locals, 2-DishNetwork VIP211's Clients: 2 Sage HD300's, 2 Sage HD200's, 2 Sage HD100's, 1 MediaMVP, and 1 Placeshifter |
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