MythTV box

November 8, 2005 Posted by mitch | mythtv | 0 Comments

I'm finally starting my mythtv box build, I'm erecting it out of old parts I've had laying around, so far I've got a 15GB drive for my OS install, an AMD Duron 800, with 640MB RAM, which is a bit much for a myth box but, otherwise the ram will just sit. So... I figure why not right? couldn't hurt. Anyway, when I first fired it up, the Orb heat sink i had on the proc was wicked loud, and we can't have that in a home theater pc. So I bought a new heatsink from pcclub, which will do for now... I'm going to be slowly making it quieter as we go along, but that'll really start happening with a new case. I'll probably eventually replace the mobo/cpu with something else making sure its quiet, but that will be after the new case down the road a bit (or maybe for xmas :) ). After I replaced the cpu fan, the fan on the chipset (A7V133) was wicked loud too... finding a replacement and removing the old one was a problem, so I left on the heat sink... and I'm hoping that the CPU fan will keep the chipset cooler too. I'll know soon enough, I'm starting my gentoo install today :)