On 18.11.2007 17:01, 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?
There exist PCIe -> PCI converters, the one my local dealer offers converts one PCIe to 4xPCI. (Price-point is about 150 EUR IIRC)
AFAIK there are no specific limitations to which PCI-card can be used in that thing.
So it shouldn't be a problem to get enough PCI-Slots even with recent mainboard that mainly have 3/3 PCIe/PCI and last but not last 1 PEG.
Bis denn