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| Author: | stinga [ Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | new motherboards |
G'day all, I have done some research into the matter and thought it might be useful to put it online. First off I want to say that I have capture cards and sound so I was looking to upgrade my MB without having to buy cards again. New MB's with more than 3 PCI slots are becoming rare. So that means split the back and front ends, which is were I think I am heading. Other options are to get as much on board as possible or move stuff off to usb. So taking each as a module... Sound I have not managed to find an MB where I can get 5.1 spdif (either coax or optical) sound to work, mind you I have not tried very hard either. USB sound for Linux does not seem to be an option either. PCI-e might be an option I have not looked at this yet. Video Not so bad since AGP and PCI(e or x whatever) seems to work OK So if you can a PCI-e sound card to work and either have an AGP or PCI-x video card you would have 3 PCI slots for your capture cards. Of course if you go USB for capture you have a few more options. On a combined FE/BE the most I am going to get is two spare pci slots since I have not found a MB that does 5.1 sound yet, so I need one pci slot for my sound card. Please fell free to add/subtract to this, I hope it is correct and might be og help to others. |
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| Author: | slowtolearn [ Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:59 am ] |
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The Asus M2NPV-VM has an optional SPDIF connector. A search of these forums should turn up what was required to get it working (if anything). I have 2 of these boards for frontends, paired with X2 3800+ and 1Gb RAM. The onboard 6150 chipset performs HDTV playback just fine. I seem to recall reading that Asus was retiring this particular model, but you can have a look at http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3& ... odelmenu=1 |
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