[mythtv-users] A8N-VM CSM success

[Paul Bender]

Steven Adeff wrote:

> On 5/8/06, Mark Lehrer <mark at knm.org> wrote:
> 
>>>Neither of these boards come with digital audio output? What a huge
>>>ommision! I'd be more than willing to give up two useless USB2 ports
>>>for an optical or digital audio output so this board can properly be
>>>used for HDTV...
>>
>>There is an S/PDIF connector available, but it plugs into the
>>motherboard and uses a slot.  Not good, but better than nothing.
>>
>>Mark
> 
> 
> I'd consider it quite good. My thinking is a cheap(relatively), HD
> capable, *small* frontend. With everything on board for no fuss. My
> only complaint was the lack of digital audio output, which both boards
> solve with a breakout card (still I'd rather give up a couple USB
> ports, but better than nothing). With all the required's onboard, one
> would not have to use the PCI slots so having the digital audio
> outputs on a breakout slot is fine. So for ~<$500 you could have one
> of these two boards, an Athlon64 3200+, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hdd and a
> nice miniATX hometheatre case ala Silverstone or whomever your
> prefered case vendor is. Which puts you into "Mac Mini territory".

I agree. Except, what are you using the hard drive for?