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

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:18:19AM +1200, Robin Gilks wrote:
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:18:19 +1200
> From: Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ITX motherboard to replace dead Zotac ION?
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> 
> 
> > 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 :(
> 

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