xbmc in a too old pc
#1
hi ppl, i wated to know if i could run live xbmc in a k6-2, i only want it for music, i'm not interesting on video at all, thx
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#2
Well, here are the XBOX 1 specs, I would at least do better or match them.

Since the K6-2 stops at 550Mhz, and XBMC with certain skins can bring the xbox to its knees, im going to say no, but you can try, xbmc-live is also running linux under it. You will not be able to use visuals either.

Quote: * CPU: 32-bit 733 MHz Custom Intel Coppermine-based processor in a Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.[13]
o SSE floating point SIMD. Four single-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
o MMX integer SIMD
o 133 MHz 64-bit GTL+ front side bus to GPU
o 32 KB L1 cache. 128 KB on-die L2 "Advanced Transfer Cache"
* Shared memory subsystem
o 64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz; 6.4 GB/s
o Supplied by Hynix or Samsung depending on manufacture date and location
* GPU and system chipset: 233 MHz "NV2A" ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA.
o Geometry engine: 115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
o 4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
o 932 megapixels/second (233 MHz x 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP×2 texture units) (peak)
+ Peak triangle performance (32pixel divided from filrate): 29,125,000 32-pixel triangles/sec raw or w. 2 textures and lit.
# 485,416 triangles per frame at 60fps
# 970,833 triangles per frame at 30fps
o 4 textures per pass, texture compression, full scene anti-aliasing (NV Quincunx, supersampling, multisampling)
o Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic texture filtering
o Similar to the GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 PC GPUs
* Storage media
o 2×–5× (2.6 MB/s–6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM
o 8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk. Formatted to 8 GB. FATX file system.
o Optional 8 MB memory card for saved game file transfer.
* Audio processor: NVIDIA "MCPX" (a.k.a. SoundStorm "NVAPU")
o 64 3D sound channels (up to 256 stereo voices)
o HRTF Sensaura 3D enhancement
o MIDI DLS2 Support
o Monaural, Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Live 5.1, and DTS Surround (DVD movies only) audio output options
* Integrated 10/100BASE-TX wired ethernet
* DVD movie playback
* A/V outputs: composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Digital Optical TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio
* Resolutions: 480i, 480p, 576i, 720p, 1080i
* Controller ports: 4 proprietary USB 1.1 ports
* Weight: 3.86 kg (8.5 lb)
* Dimensions: 320×100×260 mm (12.5×4×10.5 in)
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#3
Not a chance that was the first CPU i bought going on 10 years ago it was slow then,
it's only good for one of two things one a cheap word processer/internet use.
the other is the bin. you can build a far better machine these day's for peanuts

don't waste your time or sanity for that matter
XBMC Frodo 12 - Windows 7 - Asrock Ion 330HT - Aeon Nox
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#4
I have a mobo, CPU and memory all destin for the bin way better than a K6 if your in my neck of the woods....

K6 should of hung its boots up years ago I'm affraid..... you could use it for a DOS machine to run all the old DOS games on.....?
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#5
Don't knock old hardware. I ran a 233mhz Celeron as a NAS for years, had a passive heat sink, very quite.

Check out Music Player Daemon, could be just what you're looking for.

Quote:MPD is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by it's network protocol.


alternatively you can pick up second hand xboxes really cheap.
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#6
Yep I run loadsa old hardware... as servers and remote access... but I thinks hes afer an entry level XBMC machine.....

Yep I'd go the Xbox route too... mate bought one for £3 on ebay! its a no brainer for that much....
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