[mythtv-users] NForce2 Motherboards and MythTV (Linux)

Terrence Martin tmartin at physics.ucsd.edu
Mon Aug 9 16:39:41 EDT 2004


Oops ignore the sata question. I was looking at the deluxe.

Terrence



Blammo[doh] wrote:

>FWIW I've had GREAT luck with NFORCE2 motherboards. I have two A7N8X's, and
>a AN35U, both of which are fully supported by KnoppMyth, which I'm running,
>and worked 99% with no mods. I had to change a couple things to get SPDIF
>out working, that's about it.
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>just my $0.02
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>From: "Terrence Martin" <tmartin at physics.ucsd.edu>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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>Subject: [mythtv-users] NForce2 Motherboards and MythTV (Linux)
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>>I was just looking into possible getting a new motherboard for my mythtv
>>box. A couple of reasons for this. One I have a bum PCI slot in the one
>>I have. The second is that I could either spend $50-$60 on a PCI slot
>>based Promise TX4 SATA card when I upgrade my hard disks, using up a
>>precious PCI slot in the process, or I can get a new MB with a SI
>>chipset on board for almost the same price from what I can see.  2x Sata
>>is fine, that is 400GB of disk, and 800GB if I decided down the road to
>>go to 400GB disks.
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>>Many of the newer boards seems to have the Nforce2 chipsets but I had
>>heard there are some issues. How good is support for the NForce2 chipset
>>in Linux/MythTV and what motherboards are recommended? If the onboard
>>sound was decent it would be a bonus, but I still have my SBLive! 5.1.
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>>The only other thing is making sure there is ample ZIF socket space for
>>a *ZALMAN CNPS3100-Plus Copper CPU Cooler for Socket 462/ A/ 370*
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>>I have had a good experience with these heatsinks.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Terrence
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