[mythtv-users] looking for a motherboard...

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Apr 16, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Marco Coli wrote:

>> Hey Folks.
>>
>>    I am looking for a motherboard (for a dedicated back end  
>> rebuild) and
>> would love some help. I am hoping to us a dual core Pentium D but  
>> I need
>> some extras.
>
> About this topic, I am in big trouble too.
>
> Searching for a new board (to do HD, I did SD until today), with  
> Pentium
> support, I did not find any board with 4 or 5 PCI slot. Nowadays all
> boards have only 3 PCI maximum, leaving other slots for PCI-X PCI
> Express....
>
> But I have a lot of PCI boards... LanWifi - PVR350 - DVB-s(2 slots  
> with
> CI) are 4, I intended to leave one free (for future upgrades)....
>
> Any ideas? Thank you

I had read that PCI-X (or maybe it was Express) is backward  
compatible with PCI, so you can put your PCI cards in those slots. So  
if you get an SLI motherboard with 3 PCI lots, you've actually got 5  
PCI slots.