<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2/26/2010 00:24, Dan Armbrust wrote:<br>
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What is the smallest case that folks have found that can still handle<br>
a full PCI card?<br>
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If you want a thin case and need to use full height cards, either stick your tuner cards in a separate backend, or buy a case with a 90 degree riser card.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I suspect this is one of the reasons Myth devs did the work for multiple backend machines. It doesn't have to be a powerful box, unless you're trying to do compression of the fly or something like that. Most current tuner cards seem to be either digital only or do the compression on the card, so your backend computer is just writing the stream to disk. Even an old 486 should be able to do that. We all probably have neighbors throwing away computers that would work great as BEs. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My BE is part of a big noisy server sitting in the utility room. More than enough space for full height and length cards. The FEs are small mATX boxes, though one of them is tall enough for full height cards. Any future FEs are likely going to be Revos or similar. Tiny, low power drain, quiet, HD capable. What's not to like? :) </div>
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