[mythtv-users] Motherboard Recommendation needed

Justin The Cynical cynical at penguinness.org
Sun Jul 20 21:30:09 UTC 2008


John Drescher wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Duncan Brown <mythtv at duncb.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I'm looking to upgrade my rather old myth box, and am getting very tired
>> and frustrated trying to find a suitable motherboard!
>>
>> I'm not bothered whether I go for an intel or amd processor.
>>
>> The specs I am looking for are:
>>
>>    * Onboard graphics good enough for HD - guess that means an nVidia
>>      chipset?
>>    * 3 PCI slots - this is the most important bit, and the hardest to
>>      find it seems
>>
>> If anyone has any recommendations I'd be very grateful, I really need
>> the 3 PCI slots minimum for all my tuner cards
>>
> ASUS M3N78 PRO AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8300 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard -
> Retail $104.99
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131320
> 
> Pair that with a
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Brisbane 3.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2
> 89W Dual-Core Processor - OEM
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103274 $95.00

Keep in mind that board uses a 8000 series chip for graphics, which 
means there is no MPEG2 acceleration under Linux at this time.

Of course, with that CPU, for ATSV HD OTA programs, XvMC will not be needed.


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