[mythtvnz] Backend Motherboard

tortise tortise at paradise.net.nz
Sun Jan 27 07:35:17 GMT 2013


On 27/01/2013 6:53 p.m., Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
> <jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com <mailto: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

Match up the power supply connectors, at a guess you'll need a new one 
cause your old one probably won't have the 8 pin 12V plug required....




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