On 18.11.2007 17:01, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Maybe it actually is about time for me to build a new VDR. > I'll probably take a look at the Reel Extension HD PCI. > But that means I'll also need a new motherboard with at least > five PCI slots (for 3 DVB-S cards, 1 DVB-T and the Extension HD). > On my desktop PC I'm using a passively cooled Pentium M with 1.86GHz, > which works really good, so maybe that's also a viable choice for > a new VDR. I guess it goes without saying that modern motherboards > have a gigabit Ethernet port and graphics on board. > Does anybody have a recommendation for such a board? There exist PCIe -> PCI converters, the one my local dealer offers converts one PCIe to 4xPCI. (Price-point is about 150 EUR IIRC) AFAIK there are no specific limitations to which PCI-card can be used in that thing. So it shouldn't be a problem to get enough PCI-Slots even with recent mainboard that mainly have 3/3 PCIe/PCI and last but not last 1 PEG. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr