[mythtv-users] PCI capture cards on Intel Sandy Bridge

[Jim Oltman]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Jelte Veldstra <jelte.veldstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I haven't found any mention on this list of any problems, or specific
> > mention anywhere else of problems with Hauppauge dvb cards, so I'm asking
> > here if anyone here is using PCI capture cards with a sandy bridge
> > mother-board, and if any problems have been experienced doing so.
> >
>
> I have tried a similar thing on a SuperMicro X9SCA-F motherboard with
> a Xeon E3-1220L CPU (~ 25W idle powerdraw with 2 DIMMs and a laptop
> SATA harddisk). The gotcha with this setup was that that board is
> equipped with 3.3V PCI slots. Until then I never realised there were
> different versions of 32bit PCI slots. Now I do as my DVB-C card was a
> 5V one! I solved it using a PCI-e 1x to 32bit PCI converter. The VT-d
> passthrough worked fine and a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine could access
> the DVB-C tuner (KNC-1). I only did a handful of recordings and no
> extensive testing and it seemed to work alright. I did not try more
> with it as adding more tuners this way would require more PCI-e to PCI
> adapters, which would not be very cost effective in my situation, plus
> the box was purchased as a ESXi testlab and not a 24/7 host for MythTV
> "production".
>

What about something like this:

http://www.arstech.com/item-SSI2-PCI-3-connector-card-ssi2_pci_x3.html
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