<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Manu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eallaud@gmail.com">eallaud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
I am looking for a good motherboard with ideally: 2 gbit network, sata<br>
(not too much 2 is ok, 4 is perfect), and a couple CPU/Chipset very<br>
quiet and using very little power (I guess atom would be perfect), plus<br>
I'd need at least 1 or 2 PCI and 1 or 2 PCI-e slots as I plan to put<br>
all my tv cards in it so that I dont have to run sat and tv cable all<br>
around the house.<br>
I found several small atom boards, but with no a too little pci slots<br>
(in general just one which is too little for me). I would like to avoid<br>
to have to buy 2 motherboards!<br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Atom boards are designed to be small form factor, so will likely only have 1 PCI slot. And I seem to remember hearing that Intel doesn't allow manufacturers to make full size/feature boards with Atom chips. What size PCIe do you need? For TV cards, x1 is probably enough. Check for micro-ATX boards, I have a couple with enough slots for what you are talking about. Asus M2NPV-VM and M3N78 IIRC. Add a low power CPU and you're good to go. Not too many have multiple ethernet onboard in micro-ATX though. Do you really need 2 network ports? You could always add another port with a PCI or PCIe card I guess. There are a fair number of standard ATX boards I have seen with multi ethernet onboard. <br>
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