[mythtv-users] Questions about new hardware purchase

[Fred Firestine]

On 3/29/08, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 29, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Fred Firestine wrote:
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> > Still narrowing down my hardware choices. Having trouble finding an
> > AMD motherboard with more than 2 PCI slots. I would like to use my PCI
> > wireless card (which I know will work with madwifi). It would also be
> > nice to have a firewire port. Anyone have a favorite motherboard? I
> > saw someone in the Wiki used a couple of GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3, which
> > look great, but they are discontinued many places. Is that good or
> > bad?
>
> How could you go wrong with something that "supports Vista
> Premium" ??? :-)) This implies there are similar boards that do not,
> stupid marketers.
>
> I've not had problems with Gigabyte motherboards, though I've only
> used a couple of them. I mostly use Asus boards.
>
> It certainly seems to have the features you want. The only thing is
> that heatsink might be in the way of a full-length PCI card for one of
> the slots, can't tell for sure.
>
> The only negative I can think of is if you want to use an AM2+ CPU you
> might want a board that specifically supports it without reducing the
> HT speed, if that's important to you.
>
> beww
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I may have found a supplier that claims (on their website) to have 25
of them. I'll take a closer look at that heatsink too. What do you
mean by "reducing the HT speed"? The FSB speed is listed as "1000 MHz"
at Newegg. Sorry, it's my first system building experience.   ;-)