[mythtv-users] Plans for front & back end Myth boxes

[Tortise]

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From: "Tortise" <tortise at paradise.net.nz>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Sharkey" <eric at lisaneric.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:02 AM
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Jessica Perry Hekman
<jphekman at arborius.net> wrote:
> How can I determine if there is room in the case, prior to sinking the
> money for the card? Open it up and look to see if there is an empty slot
> next to the PCI Express 16 slot?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00910076&tmp_track_link=ot_recdoc/c00871067/en_ca/c00910076/loc:1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ca&product=3376325&lang=en#N1386

There should be room for the video card however you'd lose the PCI slot, so long as you are not using that all should be fine.

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Actually some excerpts from that page that clarify the potential number of monitors:

Integrated graphics using nVidia GeForce 6150LE
*Integrated video is not available if a graphics card is installed.
Use up to 256MB of PC memory (with 512MB or more total PC memory)
Supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards

So you would lose access to the on board VGA, so my suggestion of the possibility of 2 VGA monitors would not work in this case.

Also there seems significant CPU upgrade potential - if you ever felt the PC was slow....(!)

Processor upgrade information
Socket type: AM2
Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:
AMD Phenom II Quad-Core
AMD Phenom II Triple-Core
AMD Phenom Quad-Core (A) 9xxx series (AM2+)
AMD Phenom Triple-Core (T) 8xxx series (AM2+)
AMD Athlon X4
AMD Athlon X3
AMD Athlon X2 (B) (AM2+)