<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Marco Nelissen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco.nelissen@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="cremed">marco.nelissen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="">On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank" class="cremed">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 31/08/14 05:46, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt wrote:<br>
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On 14-08-30 09:25 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:<br>
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My motherboard died and so I need a replacement. The thing is that I currently<br>
have three PCI capture cards, and motherboards with 3 PCI slots are<br>
increasingly hard to find, and apparently don't last very long (this one<br>
lasted 2 years).<br>
I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile to switch to PCIe, USB or<br>
networked capture cards, or whether I should stick with PCI. Also, suggestions<br>
for an LGA1155 motherboard that will last more than 2 years are welcome.<br>
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While I don't feel comfortable commenting on a specific board without knowing<br>
any of your other requirements, if your case has sufficient space, you could<br>
change to a PCIe board, and just use a PCIe to PCI adapter, such as<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158165" target="_blank" class="cremed">http://www.newegg.com/Product/<u></u>Product.aspx?Item=<u></u>N82E16815158165</a>.<br>
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As far as longevity goes, I've had pretty good luck with both Gigabyte (in<br>
fairness, one of my Gigabyte boards did die recently, after 7 1/2 years of 24<br>
hrs up time) and EVga (zero failures to date) boards in recent years, while<br>
nothing but pain from MSI (3x DOA, and 2 dead within 6 months).<br>
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The drawback with that adapter is that it gets him *one* PCI slot per *one* PCIe adapter, and to top it the PCI cards have to be low-profile.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Even at one PCI slot per adapter, that opens up a whole new world of possibilities. While motherboards with 3 PCI slots are getting rare, there are plenty that have one or two. Until yesterday I didn't even realize these adapters existed, so now I have many more boards to choose from. All of the cards are low profile, so that's not an issue.</div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">You might be better off going for USB or PCIe, even though this means upgrading your tuners.<br>
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In recent years changes to digital mean that often newer tuners will be better suited to receive the improved services that are offered (stop laughing at the back there!) and will also be lower power. I always found PCI cards to be power hungry.</blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>I never measured their power use, but they do get pretty warm/hot. I wonder if that's what eventually kills the motherboard.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>I ended up going with an Asus P8H77-V. While putting everything back together I measured power usage with a Kill-a-Watt with and without the capture cards, and found they use just under 7 Watts each when idle (didn't measure while capturing), so ~20W for the three cards combined. Not great, but not terrible either.<br>
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