JJZolx;192608 Wrote: > Is this your primary desktop system or a dedicated server? Probably not > a lot of reasons to spend that much on upgrading a dedicated SlimServer > machine, even if you do use it to rip and encode.
Yeah, I should have explained this. This will be a primary desktop machine. Media encoding and file archiving are the most processor-intensive tasks I do. > The cheapest route would be to find a used replacement motherboard off > of eBay or Craigslist. Maybe the same model if you were happy with the > old one and feel the failure was unrelated to the quality, otherwise > some other brand/model. I have some old clunkers which could do as a SlimServer/ripper/encoder but seeing as I need a desktop anyway I would rather use that as the server. Also what I had before worked well - an everyday desktop which was also a SlimServer. SS never interfered with what I was doing on the desktop. Incidentally I believe I may have found the perfect motherboard: 'ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA' (http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA&s=775) It's cheap, it supports SATA-RAID (otherwise I'd have to get an 80 GB drive for the OS), it allows me to reuse my current video card and RAM, and it's fast: benchmarks indicate that switching to DDR2 won't give much of a speed increase, and the E6600 is at least as fast on this board as on the Intel chipset boards! Regarding the sub-par PCI-E graphics system on the board, I couldn't care, I'm not a gamer and will continue to use my old AGP video card with it. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34183 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
