What is the typical spec for a jukebox computer.

[divemaster127]

What is the typical spec for a jukebox computer.  I think what I have picked out to buy is a little over kill.  750 gig wd, 2 gig ram, nivida 9500, dual core amd chip.  Just wondering what would be best.
dm

[Ralman]

Specs of my jukebox:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB RAM
160 GB HDD
NVidia GeForce 6800 (non GT)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Basically just running jukebox app and light web browsing.  No gaming, MAME, or otherwise. Works fine for me.

[divemaster127]

ok, so i can back down some from the above list & still have plently
dm

[unclet]

Depends also whether you plan on including music videos on your jukebox and the quality of the MPG file.   I think the 750 Gig hard drive is nice to have if you are going with videos.   Either way, make sure you backup all your song files and such so you never loose them.

[Nacimroc]

Just finished mine and used a 1.6 ghz atom processor with 512mgb ram! 320gb HDD! Works perfect! Only running music, but does video fine aswell! Using onboard sound and graphics on a mini ITX board!

[Space Fractal]

its of course depend of software used and its contain a lots of animations, videos and such.

But typical they don't require so much specs at all, so some years old computer is fully valid.

Most important here is of course the sound card, which some might been noisy and other not.

[daywane]

I just had a P3 Pc 600meghrtz
300 meg ram, 60 gig HD
arcade jukebox 7
mame 56

[nipsmg]

That spec is WAY WAY WAY overkill.   You could build a jukebox that does 1080p video playback using an ION based Atom MB/CPU combo and a little ram (2gb?).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500038&cm_re=ion_motherboard-_-13-500-038-_-Product

[Space Fractal]

its depend the video format used....... As i know only dvd based codes use hardware decoder, and I have seen a review there might been trouble to software decode fast in 1080p here (like HD videos on youtube was software decodeded andn was not very good here).

Howover if you have other codec and/or they are not full hd, that one should been 100% completly fine.

So again, it depend which software used, and its for music only, music videos used and such.

a jukebox specs does not really need been a fast one at all!

[dafelandry]

Im kicking a 6 year old Compaq Presario P4, Geforce 4, 1 TB SATA drive (pain in the butt to get all my free space, but its all there), 1.5 Gig ddr ram, Elo touchscreen and using registered etouch!!

- Kareokee works (CREATED over 120 songs)
- over 35 t/s games (pop cap games including world of goo and crayon physics)
- simple touch FE
- over 600 gbs of music
- about 60 music videos
- 25 movies
- I also purchased a 5.8 GHz Digital Wireless Audio Transmitter/Receiver (http://www.amphony.com/products/l1500.htm) Works extremely well!! and a Vandal Resistant Chrome Soft Touch Power / Reset Switch (for the Juke case when it comes together http://www.frozencpu.com/products/7579/ele-338/Vandal_Resistant_Chrome_Soft_Touch_Power_Reset_Switch.html)

I currently am running it in an ancient tower, the build got put on hold due to saving up for a trip to France/Amsterdam in June!! But I have purchased everything but the wood/paint and such... I am just living on a short amount of money until my trip (for example i got paid today and have only 250 bucks to last me two weeks,bills paid and the rest went to the trip) Cant wait to create the final build...

[Kevin Mullins]

Like others have said it really all depends on what you plan on running on it.....

My BagillionGhz (read 550Mhz) does me just fine.
But mine is also JUST a jukebox, running DWJuke and a Keywhiz for it's keypad and it plays music.
Think it has like 256MB ram or so. No frills ancient Sound Blaster.


 

[caesar]

Hello,
   I utilized an older P4-3ghz (single core) Processor, 1Gig ram, 256mb AGP card, 100gig HDD & Windows XP2.
No issues so far...

[Barry Barcrest]

I have always used a P4 with 1 gig of ram when i can but I have run a PIII 1ghz with 256mb of ram with no issues running E-Touch. If you were to use wincab or skjukebox you could probably drop that spec down even lower. 

[Blanka]

+1 for the ION Atom boards (Or buy a ASRock ION or EEEbox ion directly). Those buggers only consume 30-40 watt and do full HD too.