<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>Many PC's are too bulkey / Noisy for the Living Room</div>
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<div>I have seen a few posts about Low profile cases, etc. </div>
<div>I haven't seen any posts on the best Mother Boards all in one / chipset / firewire, etc.</div>
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<div>I am looking for a good motherboard that has most of the compatible components with Linux.</div>
<div><br>Firewire is very important. I belive that a lot of AV will be leaning on IEEE. I have heard rumors that the IEEE ports are enabled on a few cable boxes including Comcast's.</div>
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<div>Small cases are great & all but if the MB that is integrated doesn't have enough features you run out of room fast.</div>
<div>Colling / Fans are another issue.</div>
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<div>I would even consider (heaven forbid) using a Dell 270/620 etc. </div>
<div>I'm not really set on anything at this point but towers just seem to be overkill & pretty ugly in a living room.</div>
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<div>I would consider a single backend with raid and 4-10 tuners (and store out of site) and then front ends / thin clients at every tv eventually.</div>
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<div>I'm thinking short term it is probably better to find a Linux/mythtv-HD friendly motherboard. USB QAM tuners seem to be one way to deal with lack of add-on-card-space.</div>
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<div>Any Idea's urls etc? Remember, I'm mainly asking about motherboards.</div>
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<div>Thanks everyone!</div>