[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations

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Mon Apr 9 15:52:17 UTC 2007


Yan Seiner wrote:

>Brian Wood wrote:
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>>On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
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>>>OK, I'm throwing in the towel....  My Gigabit mobo has got to go....
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>>>Anyone have any recommendations for a mobo that has (ideally) 4 PCI
>>>slots (3 min), 1 PCIe-16x slot, can handle 4 SATA drives, and actually
>>>works well with Myth?
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>>I'm assuming you want a board that will work with your existing CPU,  
>>and I'm more of an AMD fellow and don't know much about the Intel chips.
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>Yeah, so am I...  Every other self-built box in the house is an AMD.  I 
>bought this on recommendation from a friend; perhaps it works well under 
>Windows but it sucks under linux.
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>I'm looking to transplant the Core2Duo and the DDR400 memory as well.
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>>I've had good luck with the Asus mobos that use the nforce chipsets.  
>>I've had some bad experiences with VIA-based boards and the SiS-based  
>>Asus boards I've used fall somewhere in between.
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>>But of course this is limited to my own experience, I'm sure there  
>>are folks who would say the exact opposite.
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>:-)
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>Mostly I want reliability.  I don't understand why ivtv is dropping data 
>when the CPU usage is 2-3%, unless the bus/southbridge/whatever can't 
>handle irq or there is some other problem on the board.
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>I've built low-latency kernels, high-throughput kernels, moved cards 
>around, no joy.
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>Apparently if the eth gets busy, the hard drives become nearly 
>inacessible....
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>--Yan
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Have you tried disabling acpi in the bios and in the kernel?


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