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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 3:06 pm 
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I am very happy with AMD:s 45W quad core cpu:s. Although no record clock speeds, four cores can kick some bytes. Not ideal for single threaded, performance hungry applications, but that does not seem to be typical any more. :D

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 4:38 pm 
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Tjc: I see your motherboard also has integrated graphics (AMD760G northbridge, which some say is ATI Radeon 3000 graphics).

I know Nvidia is usually recommended for Mythtv, but was wondering, if you have enough horsepower to do HD and Flash stuff without hardware acceleration, do you think the onboard ATI graphics could work without the Nvidia card? (audio over HDMI not withstanding)

Or are the ATI drivers just to problematic to even consider?


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:26 pm 
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I have very few good things to say about the motherboard. About the only things to like about it are issues it doesn't have. It doesn't have any fans, and it doesn't have a bad physical layout. On the other side...

- It's less than standard size so that the back of the board where a lot of stuff plugs in is unsupported.
- It's got the crappy problem ridden NIC previously mention.
- It reports alarming values for the northbridge temperature.
- The chip set heat sinks are poorly mounted, wobbly, and easy to dislodge accidentally. On top of that the factory thermal compound isn't one that allows for reseating.
- For back panel I/O It only has one PS2 connector, no SPDIF, no firewire, ...

As for the on board graphics, I'd count them useless and as strikes against it too. ;-)


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I am looking at other motherboards and CPUs. I am considering one with an audio chipset Realtek ALC892 and a LAN chipset Intel 82579V. Is it possible to tell before hand if R6.04 and R7 support these out of the box? Or is it pretty much just trial and error?

I have googled around, but I can't come up with how to find out.


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It seems like that NIC is still a bit new to be well supported, although more recent versions of the e1000e driver are available which do cover it. A bit of research says that you may need a 2.6.36 kernel, and the current one in LinHES 6.04 is 2.6.28 based.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:52 am 
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I found this list of compatible NICs:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HC ... ers_(Wired)#Intel

Not sure if all Intel NICs are compatible, however, maybe TJC's success story belong's here.

I am researching \ evaluating the LENOVO ThinkCentre M55p SFF CORE 2 DUO 1.86GHZ 2GB RAM for LinHES compatiblility and trying to avoid the pain the TJC encountered:

* Onboard NIC:Intel Ethernet 82578DM/82578DC/82567LM/82566DM/82566DC
* Onboard Sound: Analog Devices Inc. SoundMAX WDM flat driver
* Onboard Video: ??? (not really important)

These are inexpensive and if there components are on the HCL, then they would make a good FE / BE.

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tjc wrote:
A bit of research says that you may need a 2.6.36 kernel, and the current one in LinHES 6.04 is 2.6.28 based.


You can always compile that version if need be.

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gatorback wrote:
* Intel Ethernet 82578DM/82578DC/82567LM/82566DM/82566DC

No idea about the sound, but some searching reveals that 2.6.28 may have a version of the e1000e Intel driver which is just a shade too old for that NIC.

As graysky says you can probably build the driver or kernel yourself, although without a PKGBUILD file that means manual patching and configuring. I did something like that to get the crappy NIC on the motherboard working, but tossed the hacked kernel with a sigh of relief when I got the Intel PCIe 1x card.


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