[mythtv-users] PCI capture cards on Intel Sandy Bridge

[Mike Perkins]

On 02/04/12 15:06, Jim Oltman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Jelte Veldstra<jelte.veldstra at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>> I haven't found any mention on this list of any problems, or specific
>>> mention anywhere else of problems with Hauppauge dvb cards, so I'm asking
>>> here if anyone here is using PCI capture cards with a sandy bridge
>>> mother-board, and if any problems have been experienced doing so.
>>>
>>
>> I have tried a similar thing on a SuperMicro X9SCA-F motherboard with
>> a Xeon E3-1220L CPU (~ 25W idle powerdraw with 2 DIMMs and a laptop
>> SATA harddisk). The gotcha with this setup was that that board is
>> equipped with 3.3V PCI slots. Until then I never realised there were
>> different versions of 32bit PCI slots. Now I do as my DVB-C card was a
>> 5V one! I solved it using a PCI-e 1x to 32bit PCI converter. The VT-d
>> passthrough worked fine and a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine could access
>> the DVB-C tuner (KNC-1). I only did a handful of recordings and no
>> extensive testing and it seemed to work alright. I did not try more
>> with it as adding more tuners this way would require more PCI-e to PCI
>> adapters, which would not be very cost effective in my situation, plus
>> the box was purchased as a ESXi testlab and not a 24/7 host for MythTV
>> "production".
>>
>
> What about something like this:
>
> http://www.arstech.com/item-SSI2-PCI-3-connector-card-ssi2_pci_x3.html
>
That's an impressive product if it does what it says...

I note there are two cable lengths to connect this card to the host adaptor - 
three feet and fifteen feet! Some mistake, surely?

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Mike Perkins