<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Razza wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#0000ff"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="734470614-04112006">Agree on the UPS etc. fortunately I already have that covered for the Asterisk system, which is more essential than MythTV in the life continuity stakes! ;o)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#0000ff"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="734470614-04112006"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#0000ff"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="734470614-04112006">I was thinking about a Gigabyte board (GA-M55plus-S3G) as it already has a built in video card etc. and GB LAN (<A href="http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2385&ProductName=GA-M55plus-S3G">http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2385&ProductName=GA-M55plus-S3G</A>), what model is your board?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#0000ff"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="734470614-04112006"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You'll make folks on this list happier if you don't top-post or use fancy formatting, fonts etc. The default Outlook behaviour is generally considered bad :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Asus mobo I'm using is an older K8N Socket-754 unit, nothing fancy, but it does have 5 PCI slots which was important to me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Nothing wrong with the mobo you mention, but it is somewhat overkill for what you want to do.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Quadro video is way more than you need. The most common Myth video card is a 5xxx series GeForce. I have no experience with the Quadros and haven't seen them mentioned here. They are more often used with high-end CAD systems. 3GB/S SATA is not needed for Myth, and in fact no drives can really take advantage of it (yet). The dual memory channel DDR2 AM2 boards are not really needed for Myth either.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But you can never be too rich, too skinny or have too much CPU/GPU/RAM. That board would certainly work well if you want to spend the $$$. I'd just be certain that the video chip will actually work well with Myth before buying one.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My experience with Myth is that you are best off using hardware that is commonly-used and thus well-supported.</DIV></BODY></HTML>