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dc101:
I'm looking to build a dedicated jukebox using SK Jukebox, and I was wondering what the minimum specs are.  In particular, I'd like to use a VIA EPIA 5000 Fanless Motherboard (http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2#p1601), but it only sports a 533Mhz CPU.  Will that be enough?

Thanks,
DC

lordsnipe:
I had SKJukebox running on a Celeron 666 with 128mb of RAM, WinXP (TinyXP) with onboard video and sound.

I had roughly about 130 albums and it did start to struggle a bit. Smooth scrolling had to be turned off and even then, whenever you hit the scroll buttons, it would hesitate a bit. This was with the database option turned on.


I have since used a fast machine and am having no issues!

SalmonKing:

--- Quote ---I had roughly about 130 albums and it did start to struggle a bit. Smooth scrolling had to be turned off and even then, whenever you hit the scroll buttons, it would hesitate a bit. This was with the database option turned on.
--- End quote ---

The delay you were experiencing would have simply been the album art loading in the background before it's displayed.  The Static Databse simply saves the album/song lists to a couple of files so it doesn't have to search your paths every time it starts up.   :)

I used to run SKJB on a P3 800, with a pretty decent video card.  That was enough for it to run fine, although I had to tweak the animation settings a little before I got a smooth-ish result.

That PC then died on me (just the motherboard, thank god!!), so I got a cheap Celeron 2.4 (or something around that range).  That runs SKJB perfectly!   ;)

I'm sure SKJB would run on the 533 you are looking at, DC, it's just a matter of how well it runs!  To be honest, I would throw more at it, maybe get a 1-1.5 Ghz CPU and a decent-ish video card.

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