[mythtv-users] Re : expansible and powersaving motherboard for backend??

[Manu]

Le 30/09/2009 10:40:59, Travis Tabbal a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Manu <eallaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >        Hi all,
> > I am looking for a good motherboard with ideally: 2 gbit network,
> sata
> > (not too much 2 is ok, 4 is perfect), and a couple CPU/Chipset very
> > quiet and using very little power (I guess atom would be perfect),
> plus
> > I'd need at least 1 or 2 PCI and 1 or 2 PCI-e slots as I plan to 
> put
> > all my tv cards in it so that I dont have to run sat and tv cable
> all
> > around the house.
> > I found several small atom boards, but with no a too little pci
> slots
> > (in general just one which is too little for me). I would like to
> avoid
> > to have to buy 2 motherboards!
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Atom boards are designed to be small form factor, so will likely only
> have 1
> PCI slot. And I seem to remember hearing that Intel doesn't allow
> manufacturers to make full size/feature boards with Atom chips. What
> size
> PCIe do you need? For TV cards, x1 is probably enough. Check for
> micro-ATX
> boards, I have a couple with enough slots for what you are talking
> about.
> Asus M2NPV-VM and M3N78 IIRC. Add a low power CPU and you're good to
> go. Not
> too many have multiple ethernet onboard in micro-ATX though. Do you
> really
> need 2 network ports? You could always add another port with a PCI or
> PCIe
> card I guess. There are a fair number of standard ATX boards I have
> seen
> with multi ethernet onboard.

Yes I guess that a low power recent celeron board could be good.
Thx
Manu