The EPIA ME6000, VIA EPIA SP8000E and the Commell LV-667 all have MPEG2
hardware decoding on the motherboard, so no additional video card is needed.
In addition, they are mini-itx form factor. Most mini-itx cases come
with a right angle ide connector so that if you add an IDE card, the
card will be parallel to the motherboard.
For a case, I have been using the Casetronic C137-90W
<http://206.14.132.88/products/Travla/c137/C137-90.html> with the case
fan disabled.
Yes, the Commell LV-667 has a CPU fan.
A JM wrote:
So, what kind of cases are you guy's using? if it's diskless and
fanless as in the VIA EPIA ME6000 or SP8000E (I'm not sure what this
is HD Commell LV-667) you'll need video card height in order to use
decoding on a card correct? So, are they mostly beastly ugly PC's or
something more attractive?
My backend is running an XP3200 with 512meg and a couple of 200gig
drives in a LVM so I'm assuming it could handle the front end?
I'm currently finishing off an XBOX front end and although it's not
unattractive I'd like something attractive and quite.
Thanks for all the great information and feedback.
AJM,
On 6/7/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Carland wrote:
One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still
want a silent machine, would be to boot from flash (or even floppy). I
have a CompactFlash to IDE adapter, that can be used to load a kernel,
and the rest could be loaded from network. If the motherboard supports
booting from a USB drive, this would do the same thing. You could even
load the kernel from a floppy, although when I used to do this the
same floppy sitting in the same drive for months on end would need to
be replaced once or twice a year. Not exactly diskless in that case,
but other than 30 seconds at boot, there is no drive noise.
Or, throw in a DVD drive and boot from CD/DVD, and you can play DVD's
with the frontend, also.
Mike
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