On 5/26/2013 1:12 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
HDTV causes my current box (nothing fancy, just an ancient IBM desktop, very quiet) to struggle.
This thread looks interesting and I would like to throw in my comments. My media center PC was an older IBM desktop model with a Hauppauge PVR250 card. I used the RS-232 port to control the DirectTV receiver. The motherboard died recently and I wanted to replace it without having to spend a lot of money replacing parts because they aren't compatible with the new board. I got lucky and stumbled on a good board that has great legacy support. This board has IDE and SATA so I didn't have to replace the drive. It even has floppy, parallel, serial, gigabit ethernet, a decent ATI onboard video and two PCI slots so I can still use the TV card. Another important thing for me is that this one required only the 4 pin 12v plug instead of 8 pin so it is compatible with the existing power supply. Now I have a nice 4 core AMD, 8GB RAM and with AMD's cool and quiet, this computer is much more quiet than it used to be so in general I would say this computer makes a nice media center pc. This board is: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GM-LE%20FX/ Perhaps this board would fit the need of the original poster as well as for those discussing media center use. I have this computer setup with dual boot with Windows 7 and SuSE 12.3. The Windows side is working ok but I still have some work to get SuSE to work with the video. I am using the VGA port for the monitor and the DVI port for the television. Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org