Hardware for pvr

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I know, it.s been beaten to death.  I was wondering if the 
bellow system is powerful enough to handle myth TV encoding 
and streaming video for MPEG-4.  The TV card I might
use will not have hardware encoding on it.  Is mythTV the
most widely used pvr software?

1600 for a pvr / media center sounds expensive :-(


The system will likely be something like the bellow 
system.  Is this overkill?
$389.99   Shuttle® SB77G5 Pentium® 4 Socket 775 
$324.99   Intel® Pentium® 4 -630, 3.0-GHz @ 800Mhz w/ 2Mb
          EM64T XD (Socket 775)  w/ Heat Sink & Fan
$199.99   1Gb DDR SDRAM Ram Module, PC3200
$199.99   (2) 250GB Maxtor SATA-150 7200RPM 16Mb 9ms OEM
 $79.99   Leadtek® WinFast® TV2000 XP Expert (PCI) 
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$1394.94  
  $97.65  
 $111.60  
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$1604.19  Total
http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BarebonePromos/index.htm

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