Braining out my OTA TV snarfer build, for general media capturing and hoarding. I want two ATSC tuners in it, and at least one analog for special duties, like "backing up" VCR tapes and getting one or two extra long distance channels on a set top converter box which seems way more sensitive than the tuners or most TVs. Also possibly rigging a dish and receiver for a small handful of still free to air satellite channels. Will have to set those manually until I get around to building a remote gizmo (Serial to IR)
So I need a video card hole, and two PCIe holes for Hauppauge WinTV cards, and a couple of PCI slots, network and a decent amount of storage interfaces. I think I'm going to have to use my P5K3 Deluxe, due to that having best slot arrangements. Into that goes a Q6600, HD6450, and as much DDR3 as I can muster, which looks like only being 6GB right now... might be down to 4GB by the time I've tested. It's known to push quads as high as 4Ghz, which I hope means I can get something rock solid and not too volty in the low 3Ghz-es out of the Q6600 ... because I don't want it taking 10 hours to re-code a movie like the X2-4200 test rig was doing.
Initially, it's gonna get a 60GB SSD, with 30GB of that for "buffer" to dump the recordings to before they get transcoded to something MP4ish and dumped onto 3TB main storage (Got two 3TB drives, gonna see if I wanna JBOD the other one on, or use it for backup and buy bigger drives when I fill the first one)
Think I'm going the MythTV route, might look at Kodi.... Plex got too commercial. It's okay as a frontend still... backend stuff.. nahhhh.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.