Homebrew Media Server

1.   Introduction
1.1   Motherboard
1.2   Graphics Card
1.3   Wireless
1.4   DVB-T Tuners
1.5   Case
1.6   Other Bits

Introduction

This is a mix of very old and very new kit. I use it for testing different media servers.

Motherboard

• Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus - Socket "A"(462)
• DRAM Clock - 133MHz
• DRAM Timing - manual
• DRAM CAS Latency - 2T
• Bank Interleave - 4-way
• Precharge to Active - 2T
• Active to Precharge - 6T
• Active to CMD - 3T
• DRAM Queue Depth - 4 level
• Write recovery time - 1T
• DRAM Command Rate - 2T
• DRAM DQS Length - Default
• AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 266mhz FSB

References

• http://soyo.com/product/AMD_Athlon_XP/35/SY-K7V_DRAGON_Plus!/21
• http://usuario.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/VIA/VIA-latency-linux.html
• http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=browse_forum&f=1768
• http://www.seo-search-engine-marketing.com/computers/bios-guide/index.html

Graphics Card

• XFX GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR (PV-T34K-UA)

Wireless

• Edimax EW-7128G 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=152539
• http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/

DVB-T Tuners

• 2x Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T PCI Freeview receiver (909)
• http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HAU-909

Case

• SilverStone LC10B-M+ Black Aluminum case + VFD + IrDA w/o PSU
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=192073
• SilverStone TruePower 300W Silent Fanless Aluminium PSU
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=137420
• Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCU Super Flower Cooler
• http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ZAL-S7000B

Other Bits

• 266MHz 184Pin 1GB PC2100 DDR RAM DIMM 2.5V 2.1Gb
• http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?RAM-21/1GB
• Samsung 300 Gb HD300LD Spinpoint T, IDE (PATA), 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=442827
• Samsung 400 Gb HD400LD Spinpoint T, IDE (PATA), 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=442829
• 3xUSB2 PCI card with 3.5" 3 port USB & 2 Port Firewire Combo USB internal Hub
• http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=76675

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