[mythtvnz] Backend Motherboard

[Steve Hodge]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
<jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 5:01 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:
>
>
> Not sure where to buy pre-assembled motherboards, however I'll recommend
> the MB I recently put in my fileserver: ASRock B75 Pro3-M. It's a micro ATX
> board - the case I have will take a full size ATX board but it cuts down
> the number of usable drive bays. It has 3 SATA3 (6Gbps) and 5 SATA2 (3Gbps)
> connectors and supports hot plug.
>
>
> +1 for a uATX B75 MB. The matching Ivy Bridge Intel CPUs have heaps of
> grunt for video work. I recently built a machine for a relative with a
> Gigabyte B75M-D3H uATX board, runs great.
>

I tend to buy Gigabyte boards normally. What sold me on the ASRock this
time was the 8 SATA connectors vs 6 in the Gigabtye boards. Plus it had an
extra fan header.

Cheers,
Steve
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