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| Author: | wififun [ Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Any Tier 1 P4 motherboards with with 5 PCI slots |
I am really considering upgrading to a system capable of playing back HD content, so upgrading to a 3.0+ ghz P4 may be my only option. I however can not find reference here about the number of PCI slots. It is very hard to find a new motherboard that supports PCI Express for video, but still has 5 PCI slots for PVR and HD cards. Any recommendations from those of you who have a similar setup. I would prefer nvidia chip-set since that is what I have had the best luck with over the last several years. Going through some the posts here looking up the boards, most only have 3 PCI slots. |
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| Author: | Mephi [ Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:01 am ] |
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Two questions: Why does it have to be a PCI-Express board? Why does it have to be a P4? Mephi |
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| Author: | wififun [ Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:40 pm ] |
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The main reason for the P4 is the tier 1 HD support. There has been a lot more success in getting a system setup to playback live HD content using a P4 3+ GHz processor than anything else. I have used AMD for years, but hitting that HD mark may mean it is time to switch back. I guess it does not have to be pci express, but it does have to support hyper threading. Again, I am going for performance here. I want to watch live HD and record HD, and or PVR-250 content at the same time. I know Xsecrets does this but I think his board only has three slots from what I was able to gather. Many boards only have 2 and 1 express. |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:08 pm ] |
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well actually the AS8 is 4pci 1agp it does require a full atx case, and it unfortunately doesn't have onboard video, but does have fully supported onboard spdif sound and lan, and firewire which works wonderfully with my moto 6200. http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/tec ... &model=191 |
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| Author: | macman [ Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:54 pm ] |
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G'day, the abit 7nf7-s as described in a post down the page had 5 slots, agp plus sound,lan and spdif. and works with myth matt |
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| Author: | Mephi [ Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:17 am ] |
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It works very well with myth, but it's an Athlon XP potherboard, so a bit below the spec requested. Mephi |
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