I've had good luck with Foxconn motherboards. Currently, I'm using their K8S760MG-6LRS which uses the SIS760+964 chipset. I added an GF4 FX5200 video card and PVR-250 to round things out. The board was like $75 when I purchased and so far it has worked great w/ my Athlon64 2800+. I've also built a couple of other AMD64 systems for other people using Foxconn boards and so far no issues. If you want a higher end MicroATX board try their new Nforce4 board, the NF4K8MC-RS which includes PCI-E slots. It's going for $84 at NewEgg right now and for the money that will be hard to beat. Expect basic accessories.
I am running FC3 x86-64 w/ Myth .17 right now. I had been running .16 flawlessly for a few months before I upgraded. Ran into a few issues after upgrading but was able to fix things so it seems stable at the moment. There are additional difficulties with setting up MythTV on w/ x86-64, but in the long run I think it's worth it. Good luck, Jeong -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryce Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mythtv-users] Looking for a mainboard Hello all, I've been reading the list archives for a while and planning to build a mythtv box for at least 1.5 years. I finally got an HD TV this weekend and am ready to start pulling hardware together. I picked up an HD-3000 and a maxtor 160 gb drive for dirk-cheap. Now on to the other parts. :) I'm planning on using the Cooler Master 620 case but I'm having a hard time fnding a good mainboard. It seems higher-end mirco-atx mainboards are hard to find. I'd like to do PCI-Express for the video card (probably a Geforce 6600) and I really want a SPDIF out (unless it really isn't needed). I perfer to stick with AMD CPUs and preferably an AMD64. Can anyone recommend such a beast? Several searches on Newegg turned up almost nothing. Thanks! -- Bryce T. Pier _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
