Hi, One thing that I've found recently is the Antec Aria case (http://www.antec-inc.com/aria.html) which fit regular mATX motherboards, and since it's mATX most motherboards will handle 1 AGP and 3 PCI cards. It's definitely a little bigger than a Shuttle, but gives you a lot more choice in chipsets and processors. later, Steve derek holzer wrote: > Hi all, > > resurrecting an old thread for my own evil purposes ;-) > > I am looking to buy a Shuttle SN41G2 for use in an audio installation at > European Media Arts Festival this month. Everything looks cool, except > that VGA Shared Memory. As a devout follower of RME, I read everything > on their site about hardware recommendations, and one of the big > warnings is this Shared Graphics Memory. This means that the graphics > card uses normal RAM for its graphics-handling. The Shuttle says it > comes with a Geforce4 MX, and that it "features" 128 Mb of shared > memory. This sounds to me more like 128 Mb that gets taken away from > audio processing!! > > Can anybody tell me if they have run into audio dropout problems with > this machine, and most importantly while using an add-on soundcard. I > will be using a Delta 66 in this machine. I know that it gets glitches > with PD + ALSA with default settings on the built-in Realtek card, but I > won't be using that anyway.... > > Other problem I know of is that new kernel modules are needed for the > built-in NIC ethernet card, but I can handle that. > > robcanning wrote: > >> Does anybody know if i can access more than 2 the 5.1 outputs on the >> onboard audio chip with PD or should i go ahead and get an SBLive for 4 >> outs? > > > To answer Rob's question, look for the thread on pd list called "nForce > chipset". It was generally concluded that using the 5.1 outputs calls on > *extremely* proprietary Dolby [en/de]coding. > > best, > Derek >
