<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Jelte Veldstra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jelte.veldstra@gmail.com">jelte.veldstra@gmail.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">> I haven't found any mention on this list of any problems, or specific<br>
> mention anywhere else of problems with Hauppauge dvb cards, so I'm asking<br>
> here if anyone here is using PCI capture cards with a sandy bridge<br>
> mother-board, and if any problems have been experienced doing so.<br>
><br>
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</div>I have tried a similar thing on a SuperMicro X9SCA-F motherboard with<br>
a Xeon E3-1220L CPU (~ 25W idle powerdraw with 2 DIMMs and a laptop<br>
SATA harddisk). The gotcha with this setup was that that board is<br>
equipped with 3.3V PCI slots. Until then I never realised there were<br>
different versions of 32bit PCI slots. Now I do as my DVB-C card was a<br>
5V one! I solved it using a PCI-e 1x to 32bit PCI converter. The VT-d<br>
passthrough worked fine and a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine could access<br>
the DVB-C tuner (KNC-1). I only did a handful of recordings and no<br>
extensive testing and it seemed to work alright. I did not try more<br>
with it as adding more tuners this way would require more PCI-e to PCI<br>
adapters, which would not be very cost effective in my situation, plus<br>
the box was purchased as a ESXi testlab and not a 24/7 host for MythTV<br>
"production".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What about something like this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.arstech.com/item-SSI2-PCI-3-connector-card-ssi2_pci_x3.html">http://www.arstech.com/item-SSI2-PCI-3-connector-card-ssi2_pci_x3.html</a> </div>
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