[mythtv-users] Looking for a board for a new mythbox

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Sun Oct 26 22:29:19 EST 2003


On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 13:31 US/Pacific, Torsten Schenkel wrote:

>>> MicroATX need min. 2 PCI slots
>>> VGA with TV-out
>>> Sound with SPDIF
>
>> Do you mean all of that stuff directly on the motherboard, no extra
>> bracket headers required? I'm not familiar with such a board, but my
>> Chaintech 7NIF2 is a micro-ATX board, has 3 PCI slots, onboard TV-Out
>> (no extra bracket required) and onboard SPDIF if you get the bracket
>> for it (which can then fill the slot unused by the AGP slot).
>
> Sounds nice, but has a chipset fan, which I want to avoid. How loud is
> it? I don't want to go to go through all the effort to get a low noise
> system and have a small fan whirring inside. ASUS has the A7N8X-VM 
> which
> will need two brackets (no problem) but this will be quite expensive
> (108 EUR or $ the board, 25 $ TV-out bracket and 20 $ SPDIF bracket)

I can't hear any difference between this board and the previous fanless 
chipset board I was using. That tiny little fan is next to inaudible, 
and certainly quieter than an idling hard drive, so I don't think it 
would be a problem.

--Jarod

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