RE: Shuttle & via epia

["Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

> Seems a bit of a waste IMO to have 3 - why not combine the
internet
> gateway/firewall machine with the MP3 jukebox?

To be fair I would probably buy one to start with and have everything
running on it but in the long run I much prefer to have one box
per job.. that way if one box goes crashes it only affects one service.
Also my idea was to have other peer-peer file sharing running
continually
on the internet access box.. the current PC (AMD1.4) seems to have a
hard
time
running peer-peer and writing a CD etc at the same time.

> It doesn't have to do much processing as you will presumably be
streaming
> audio to players elsewhere in the house, so one should be well capable
of
> both tasks - and indeed the misterhouse etc functionality too...

I sort of thought it would be more than good enough for streaming the
mp3
files etc, but it could also be used as a central CD-Writer / player as
well.

> The standard CPU fan that comes with them is a but noisy, so I used
the
one
> that came with the Celery - which is fine as long as you don't want
to
> install a PCI card in the box - which I don't anyway.

..is that simply because of space considerations ?

> The newer SV50/55(?) is much quieter apparently, and can take
'real'
cpu's.
> Either of the mobos should be fine for what you want to do - it's just
a
> question of which processor to go for......
> Can't comment on DivX as am not into that, though I expect the beefier
the
> better really....

Any idea how well (i.e. grunt) the integrated VIA processors compare to
Intel's ?

marcusw@xxxxxxx "Marcus Warrington"
MIS Computer Services (UK)




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