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noel at igrin

Jul 19, 2010, 12:06 AM

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motherboard for 10.04

I've had a catastrophic HDD failure.The HDD now has a wee hole in the
top of one of the chips where the smoke got out.
LUCKILY it was the system drive with Mythbuntu 8.04LTS on it, AND my
recordings+database is on different drive.
(BTW the issue with some recordings ending shortly was a dying skystar2
dvb-s card)
Time for a rebuild with 10.04.
I used to run a combination BE/FE which fed the existing house coax from
a Raedon card via AV out, plus one FE box in the lounge which used the
VGA d-sub to the LCD TV. Now what comes highly recommended to replace
the back end machine? (I have found VGA for the DVB-S is adequate in
the lounge & the other tv's are all ancient rear-projection monsters
that have a low res so you can't tell anyway!) I know Steven E uses an
Asus M2NPV-VM in his myPVR range. Also I had 2Gb of DDR2 ram in the old
BE, and a Pentium 3.0GHz processor.
Also where would users suggest I procure such hardware from? Shameless
plugs for fellow list users will be accepted, or I can be contacted
off-list so as not to breach list policy.
Also I am starting a server rack setup for another "toy-office" at home,
so what rack-mount stuff is out there & suitable for myth?

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criggie at criggie

Jul 19, 2010, 1:19 PM

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Re: motherboard for 10.04 [In reply to]

On 19/07/10 19:06, Noel & Di wrote:
> VGA d-sub to the LCD TV. Now what comes highly recommended to replace
> the back end machine? (I have found VGA for the DVB-S is adequate in
> the lounge

I have an LCD and theres a noticeable difference between VGA and
DVI->HDMI The colour is way better, but the resolution of the DVI
input is fixed at slightly smaller than the VGA.

> Also I had 2Gb of DDR2 ram in the old BE, and a Pentium 3.0GHz processor.

You can't buy a new board for that - you'll need to go to trademe or
similar.

> Also I am starting a server rack setup for another "toy-office" at home,
> so what rack-mount stuff is out there& suitable for myth?

The best server/rack kit is a generic box which takes ATX components.
That way you can replace/upgrade with normal parts rather

Other rack gear tends to have custom motherboards etc.

$1500ish gets you a low-spec HP DL120 with a dual core Pentium and 2GB
ram. Space for 4 sata drives but only 1x160GB. Note - servers only
have PCIe these days. Rails are included but optical drives aren't.

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steve at greengecko

Jul 19, 2010, 1:57 PM

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Re: motherboard for 10.04 [In reply to]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 08:19 +1200, criggie [at] criggie wrote:

> The best server/rack kit is a generic box which takes ATX components.
> That way you can replace/upgrade with normal parts rather
>
+1. Use a 3U case then add-on cards fit without problem. I wouldn't go
for server-specific hardware - I use a desktop mobo with onboard vga,
and a low end quad core cpu for mine.

Steve

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