Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 11/18/07 18:31, Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Maybe it actually is about time for me to build a new VDR. I'll probably take a look at the Reel Extension HD PCI. But that means I'll also need a new motherboard with at least five PCI slots (for 3 DVB-S cards, 1 DVB-T and the Extension HD). On my desktop PC I'm using a passively cooled Pentium M with 1.86GHz, which works really good, so maybe that's also a viable choice for a new VDR. I guess it goes without saying that modern motherboards have a gigabit Ethernet port and graphics on board. Does anybody have a recommendation for such a board?
Well, of the 643 modern mainboards for sale in Sweden (by modern I mean S775 and AM2), none combine five PCI slots with integrated graphics. Do you need a GPU if the Reel card works?
Well, I guess you'll need some sort of console when installing the system, so some basic graphics would be nice. Don't know if the HD-E acts as a graphics card.
Klaus
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I simply stick an old PCI grapics card I bought for one euro on e-bay in my server if I need to do something that requires a local display, but integrated graphics is better of course. The closest modern match would be Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3. You'll get four PCI, GbEthernet and graphics on board. Then you could buy a low-power 33-Euro CPU like the LE-1100, but you would have to live with a USB DVB-T card. The Nova-T Stick works well for me with latest drivers.
/Magnus