[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

[Nicolas Will]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:50 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Hmm.  How good is it?  My impression of Intel chipsets is that they
> > were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of
> > acceleration.  Is that an outdated assumption?  
> 
> Browsing the link he gave in his post yields yet another link to this
> website:
> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboard/index.htm
> 
> Which is a list of intel boards.  They have a set that seems to cater
> to
> multimedia PCs.  6 USB ports, DVI outputs, mATX, etc.

I have this board:

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965WH/index.htm

lot's of SATA, if needed, RAID, if needed, optical S/PDIF, and a good
enough (when the drivers will be written from the just released docs)
GPU.

It doesn't have DVI or HDMI on-board, but it can use this:

http://prolink-usa.com/item_disp.php?upc=2006886907073

And this is already supported, and it is cheap.

Here is my full setup:

http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc

I'm waiting on the WD GP 1 TB disk that will replace the 2 noisy 250
Gigs spindles.

Nico