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<blockquote data-quote="markr" data-source="post: 93181" data-attributes="member: 18947">Hi,Im wondering if there is any guidance on how much RAM and CPU is needed to run a HTPC related to the numbers of tuners in it. I'm having problems with the mk1 HTPC and am trying to work out what spec I need for the Mk2So far - I have 2 DVB-T capture cards1 x Hauppauge nova-t 500 dual tuner card1 x Avermedia A16AR (this one also has SVideo in - to record from NTL Cable box)I've added an Nvidia 6200 card and a 300GB (16MB cache, 7200rpm) diskand for the moment the CPU is a Sepmron 2800 with 512MB ram. The system freezes up when I enable more than one tuner - and sometime it'll just reboot without posting an error (that I can find). OS is XP Pro, MP is 0.2.1.0 (tried 0.2.0.4 as well). Any suggestions ? I'm wondering if there is enough HP/RAM to drive this - but can't work out any relationship to size the system correctly. At the moment I'm not sure what to change to stableise the system.Thanks Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="markr, post: 93181, member: 18947"] Hi, Im wondering if there is any guidance on how much RAM and CPU is needed to run a HTPC related to the numbers of tuners in it. I'm having problems with the mk1 HTPC and am trying to work out what spec I need for the Mk2 So far - I have 2 DVB-T capture cards 1 x Hauppauge nova-t 500 dual tuner card 1 x Avermedia A16AR (this one also has SVideo in - to record from NTL Cable box) I've added an Nvidia 6200 card and a 300GB (16MB cache, 7200rpm) disk and for the moment the CPU is a Sepmron 2800 with 512MB ram. The system freezes up when I enable more than one tuner - and sometime it'll just reboot without posting an error (that I can find). OS is XP Pro, MP is 0.2.1.0 (tried 0.2.0.4 as well). Any suggestions ? I'm wondering if there is enough HP/RAM to drive this - but can't work out any relationship to size the system correctly. At the moment I'm not sure what to change to stableise the system. Thanks Mark [/QUOTE]

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