<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 November 2012 22:21, Josu Lazkano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josu.lazkano@gmail.com" target="_blank">josu.lazkano@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012/11/8 Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>>:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> Anthony Giggins wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Anyone running one of these as a frontend, possibly with an Nvidia card to<br>
>> run VDPAU?<br>
>><br>
>> claims to have a 16x PCI-E slot...<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <<a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-5153477.html?dnr=1" target="_blank">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-5153477.html?dnr=1</a>><a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-5153477.html?dnr=1" target="_blank">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-5153477.html?dnr=1</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> I don't think I'd call it a silly idea, though perhaps a bit overkill.<br>
> Fairly small box, very quiet (it has a big 6" (?) fan in the back), and low<br>
> power (my backend takes about 40-50W with two HVR1300 tuners and two HDs in<br>
> it).<br>
><br>
> It doesn't come with an optical drive installed, or the cables (SATA data,<br>
> and Molex to SATA power adapter) for one. And you'll want to tape over the<br>
> light behind the big bright blue HP logo on the front.<br>
><br>
> Best thing about them is that they seem to be on perpetual cashback offers<br>
> from HP - and after allowing for that, there's quite a bit of machine for<br>
> your money.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Simon Hobson<br>
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<br>
</div></div>I have one of this HP microserver, but I am using it for backend. I<br>
recommend you a Nvidia ION based board for the frontend.<br>
<br>
Regards.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Josu Lazkano<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>the main reason I thought of this was I really need a more capable FE in the other room and I was looking at this to run as a webserver anyway so I was thinking duel purposing this to run a VM and a FE (partime) currently (Old IBM laptop) doesn't get alot of use as it currently doesn't support HD content or video containers with processing overheard (aka mkv)<br>
<br>Thanks for the advice.<br><br>Anthony<br></div></div><br>