[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Mark wrote:

> Ben Curtis wrote:
>> Thanks for the help guys.  I had considered a seperate machine to run
>> mythbackend on, then a second machine that is my main server.  I  
>> guess the
>> backend doesn't really need the added advantage of the speed of the  
>> RAID.
>>
>> If the backend was on a machine with an old HD, and used 100MBit  
>> network
>> to access a server with RAID, would that be enough speed?  At most, I
>> could be capturing 2 HD streams, 2 SD streams, and then streaming 2  
>> HD
>> streams out to frontends.  That would be worst case scenario.  If not
>> 100Mbit, what about Gigabit?
>>
>>
>> Ben
>>
> How about a PCI expansion chassis?  One card on your motherboard, 7-13
> pci slots on the chassis.  Available surplus too.

Wouldn't you start to run into PCI bandwidth limitations?