Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 11/18/07 18:31, Magnus Hörlin wrote: > >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> >>> Maybe it actually is about time for me to build a new VDR. >>> I'll probably take a look at the Reel Extension HD PCI. >>> But that means I'll also need a new motherboard with at least >>> five PCI slots (for 3 DVB-S cards, 1 DVB-T and the Extension HD). >>> On my desktop PC I'm using a passively cooled Pentium M with 1.86GHz, >>> which works really good, so maybe that's also a viable choice for >>> a new VDR. I guess it goes without saying that modern motherboards >>> have a gigabit Ethernet port and graphics on board. >>> Does anybody have a recommendation for such a board? >>> >>> >>> >> Well, of the 643 modern mainboards for sale in Sweden (by modern I mean >> S775 and AM2), none combine five PCI slots with integrated graphics. Do >> you need a GPU if the Reel card works? >> > > Well, I guess you'll need some sort of console when installing the system, > so some basic graphics would be nice. Don't know if the HD-E acts as a > graphics card. > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > I simply stick an old PCI grapics card I bought for one euro on e-bay in my server if I need to do something that requires a local display, but integrated graphics is better of course. The closest modern match would be Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3. You'll get four PCI, GbEthernet and graphics on board. Then you could buy a low-power 33-Euro CPU like the LE-1100, but you would have to live with a USB DVB-T card. The Nova-T Stick works well for me with latest drivers.
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