[mythtv-users] ITX motherboard to replace dead Zotac ION?

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Tue Sep 9 22:18:19 UTC 2014


> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 09:00:19AM +1200, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>
>> Title says it all really. Frontend died, spare frontend also died. Both
>> were Zotac IONITX-B N230 Atom boards.
>>
>> Reusing the case & PSU but new otherwise, does anyone have any
>> recommendations? AMD 5150 CPU on an Asus AM1I-A m/b perhaps? No idea
>> what
>> the video output is like & the audio I'd have to split out from the HDMI
>> as I use SPDIF at present.
>>
>> Other ideas?
>>
> I'm considering the ASRock Q2900-ITX board.  They are quad core, have
> optical S/PDIF, 4 SATA, 1 PCIe 1x, Gigabit Ethernet, support 16GB RAM.
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q2900-ITX/
>
>
> They also have the Q2900-M with a PCIe16x slot, 2 SATA and some other
> minor differences.
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q2900M/

Thanks for the suggestion Pat - unfortunately the Q2900 isn't available
here in New Zealand :(

-- 
Robin Gilks





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