I'm planning on building a system to sit in the living room and serve as:
1. DVR with TV card
2. Media server (iTunes, etc)
3. NAS (network attached storage)
After a bit of research, thinking about:
1. Motherboard - MSI K9AGM2-FIH. MicroATX. Gigabit ethernet. 4xSATA. RAID. 7.1 audio.
Questions: Does this gigabit ethernet support Jumbo frames? Does the integrated video allow S-video out? HDMI out? Would it be suitable for Divx/Xvid playback? Any MB that support eSATA (or is this a case function that links to the SATA ports on the board?
2. CPU - AMD - not sure about Sempron vs Athlon 64. Suggestions on which and speed?
3. Case - Antec NSK1300 vs Sonata 3. Need room for 3-4 HDDs and 1 DVD-R. Also need HDMI/S-video out port, audio connections, FW port.
Will bring my own RAM (2x1gb), TV card (Hauppauge PVR-150) and DVD-R from current desktop.
OS:
Windows home server vs Ubuntu + MythTV + FreeNAS
Anyone use either for this type of function?
I will need this to 'play nice' with a Macbook.
Thanks in advance!
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1. DVR with TV card
2. Media server (iTunes, etc)
3. NAS (network attached storage)
After a bit of research, thinking about:
1. Motherboard - MSI K9AGM2-FIH. MicroATX. Gigabit ethernet. 4xSATA. RAID. 7.1 audio.
Questions: Does this gigabit ethernet support Jumbo frames? Does the integrated video allow S-video out? HDMI out? Would it be suitable for Divx/Xvid playback? Any MB that support eSATA (or is this a case function that links to the SATA ports on the board?
2. CPU - AMD - not sure about Sempron vs Athlon 64. Suggestions on which and speed?
3. Case - Antec NSK1300 vs Sonata 3. Need room for 3-4 HDDs and 1 DVD-R. Also need HDMI/S-video out port, audio connections, FW port.
Will bring my own RAM (2x1gb), TV card (Hauppauge PVR-150) and DVD-R from current desktop.
OS:
Windows home server vs Ubuntu + MythTV + FreeNAS
Anyone use either for this type of function?
I will need this to 'play nice' with a Macbook.
Thanks in advance!
E