<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Doug Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goofdad@gmail.com">goofdad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So ... the motherboard in my backend is, after many years of dedicated<br>
service, failing.<br>
<br>
I'm looking to upgrade, and I'm looking for recommendation for a new<br>
motherboard. No matter what choice I make, I'm confident I'll have to<br>
replace my chip/memory, so that's not an issue.<br>
<br>
What I'm looking for:<br>
- A handful of pci slots for old Hauppauge cards to support simple SD<br>
digital converter boxes.<br>
- Firewire to control the HD boxes.<br>
- As many sata ports as possible (current MoBo has 4, which are all<br>
full of 2TB drives).<br>
<br>
Plusses:<br>
- eSata to support external disks (currently through a thermaltake<br>
BlackX, not immediately necessary). If nonexistent, I can buy a<br>
PCIE->eSata.<br>
- onboard video. Not too worried about which card, as x support is<br>
not necessary (will run setup remotely). If not, I can dig up an old<br>
PCIE card.<br>
<br>
I'm ambivalent over AMD vs Intel ... but AMD motherboards seem to run<br>
about $50 cheaper across the board, and equivalent chips seem to be<br>
cheaper for AMD as well. Since game performance is not a factor, I'm<br>
leaning towards AMD just for the price difference.<br>
<br>
I'm currently looking at the GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H, but thought I'd<br>
ask here if anyone had any other likes/dislikes.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance!<br></blockquote><div><br>I am usuing the slightly older GA-880GM-UD2H
<span id="pagetitlespn" class="titlename_sub">(rev. 1.4) for my Frontend/Backend with an AMD Athlon 2 X2 245e. Works well, but I did notice that on boot with Ubuntu 10.10 it gives the highly descriptive message "Too Many Connections." ;) Researching the issue I gather it is related to the </span>Realtek <span id="pagetitlespn" class="titlename_sub">audio chip. Analog audio works fine for for me but I gather there can be an issue with digital audio. Newer kernels may have fixed this issue. The </span>GA-880GA-UD3H has a slightly newer Realtek chip, so I don't know how that will behave.<br>
<span id="pagetitlespn" class="titlename_sub"><br>I am not using on-board video as I prefer to use an VDPAU so I can't comment on that.<br></span> </div></div>