Hello Steve,<br><br>Just did a quick check on the Antec case. It will fit micro ATX mobos. That should give you plenty of choice. Personally I would stick to Intel or nForce chipsets. I have good experiences with making quiet systems of AMD K7 (Athlon) chips and socket 370 PIII (inlcuding celeron) coppermine CPUs. These chips have enough horsepower for non HDTV applications, DivX, DVD etc. I'm currently using a AMD Athlon 1350+ with 768 MB RAM as a diskless frontend. It is whisper quiet (practicably inaudible at 5 feet away) after swapping the PSU fan for a Papst 19 dB one and the CPU cooler for a Zalman all copper flower heatsink. The fan that came with the Zalman is running at 5V. I used a full ATX mobo in a full ATX Dign case. It might have helped to have a bigger case. In small cases heat builds up quickly and needs more fans to move it out.
<br>More info on quiet PC's can be found here: <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com">http://www.silentpcreview.com</a><br><br>Regards,<br><br><br>Jelte<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
scamp</b> <<a href="mailto:scampgb@gmail.com">scampgb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
<div>Hi Jelte</div>
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<div>Thanks very much for your reply. I do think that I'm suffering from the DMA problem, but no matter what I try I can't seem to fix it. VIA haven't not been particularly helpful with it.</div>
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<div>I'd like to find a Micro-ITX board, then it'll fit in the Antec Fusion case. I've been hunting for a case that looks like it "should" live under the TV, and this is the best that I've found!</div>
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<div>I'm happy to use either AMD or Intel. I'm just bothered about noise/heat. </div>
<div>Processing power isn't much of an issue, but I'll need to be able to play DVDs - and it would be handy if I could do MPEG4 at some point in the future.</div>
<div><br>Any suggestions as to specific models/ranges that I should look at? I'm not all that good at hardware!</div>
<div>Thanks<br>Steve</div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10ca196cbe357b3a_1">
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jelte Veldstra</b> <<a href="mailto:jelte.veldstra@gmail.com" title="mailto:jelte.veldstra@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<div>Hello Steve,<br><br>What you encountered is probably an issue related to VIA chipsets and high DMA loads. The ivtv drivers give a big stream of DMA requests and various VIA chipsets choke on it. I encountered it myself too.
<br>So I would recommend to stay away from VIA chipsets altogether. If you want to stick to the ITX formfactor then I guess you need to look for Intel alternatives. If you're not stuck the ITX platform and don't need a lot of computing power (= power consumption) then a second hand PIII (socket 370 coppermine) might be worth considering.
<br><br>Regards,<br><br><br>Jelte<br><br>
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<div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">scamp</b> <<a title="mailto:scampgb@gmail.com (mailto:scampgb@gmail.com)" href="mailto:scampgb@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
scampgb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div>
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<div>I've been using MythTV on a Via EPIA MII-10000 for a little while now, but I've not been able to fix some annoying problems with regular system lockups. These happen at least once a day, and fsck has been quite busy of late.
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<div>I've been following a thread on the VIA website about it, which seems to conclude that it's a problem with one of the chipsets and it's not likely to be fixed.</div>
<div><br>So, I've decide to replace the thing. I've done a fair amount of browsing, but I'd like a little advice on a suitable motherboard.</div>
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<div>What I plan to build is:</div>
<div>Antec Fusion case (<a title="http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=08739 (http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=08739) (http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=08739)" href="http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=08739" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=08739</a>)</div>
<div>NVidia FX5200</div>
<div>Motherboard, processor & memory</div>
<div>Existing 300Gb IDE hard drive, PVR-350 & WinTV-Nova-T-USB2</div>
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<div>The NVidia FX5200 seems inexpensive and seems to have good support.</div>
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<div>I'm looking for a Mini-ITX motherboard that is reliable/stable under Linux. My preferred distro is Debian. I'm based in the UK, so something that's available here would help :-)</div>
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<div>This box will sit under my TV, so I'll need it to be really quiet. I'll be using it for SD recording, both from digital terrestrial and the S-Video input on the PVR-350 (connected to a satellite box).</div>
<div>I'd like to be able to use MythDVD and the visualisations on MythMusic.</div>
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<div>Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction?</div>
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<div>Thanks :-)</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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