[mythtv-users] OT - Hunting a MoBo.....

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 16:33:05 UTC 2014


Hoi Andre,

Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 4:28:13 PM, you wrote:


> On 25 Jun 2014, at 14:14, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On 21 June 2014 18:10, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> OK
>>> 
>>> I'm looking at building a new media server that doubles as my primary
>>> myth server as well.
>>> 
>>> Given that storage requirements are the main driving force these days
>>> I've decided on the DS380 8 x 3.5" Bay case
>>> 
>>> http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452
>> 
>> Been in a similar situation a few months ago.
>> I purchased an ASRock E3C224.
>> It's a Pro card, it doesn't have DisplayPort out but it has VGA but
>> you'll never need it as this cards supports IPMI / iKVM
>> 
>> It works with Intel 1150 socket, supports ECC RAM and has every
>> peripheral you could ever want: PCI 32bits, PCIe, serial, the lot.
>> 8 SATA ports

> Apologies for the hijack but…

> I didn’t consider Asrock, didn’t think much of them but this board looks promising.

> Have you used the PCI slots, I’d really like more than 2 but this might be a possibility?

> Andre


My experience with asrock is that their acpi implementation is not
fully compatible under linux. I have experienced problems with two
boards on that count.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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