Only 3 PCI slots

[scb147]

I just bought a new motherboard, the Intel DG965WH, and it came with 1 PCI-e x16 slot, 3 PCI-e x1 slots, and 3 PCI slots. I already have the 3 PCI slots filled with my two PVR 150s and a wireless LAN card.

If they are trying to get PCI-e to take over for PCI like PCI did for ISA, then they need to make frickin cards for those slots.

[nitrogen_widget]

NewEgg has 1 pcie wifi card but no soundcards or tuner cards.
Lack of pcie makes USB look more attractive.

[maddog]

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119708

should do for most people, though the big advantage of pcie is bandwidth,,as apps need more bandwidth and th hw is available to give it to em, pcie will come in to its own
seriously tho y u guys want so many tuners??? too much tv will make ya go blind my mother sez
regrds
mdb

[bgowland]

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119708

It's not clear from the spec. on that link if the analogue side of the board has a hardware mpeg2 encoder. If it doesn't then it wouldn't be supported natively.

seriously tho y u guys want so many tuners???

I've got 7 tuners on one system but I don't really need that many - it kinda grew that way. I started with a PVR350 then a PVR500 before GB-PVR supported DVB-T - I added 4 Nova-T tuners over a period of time with the intention of going over totally to DVB-T but that still hasn't happened yet.

3 tuners is the minimum I need in my household. My wife and I have overlapping tastes in TV but often there are things that I want to record or she wants which conflict with other things. Even if the tuners are only in action to handle the padding on sequential programmes then that's a good enough reason for me. I hate missing the beginning or end of a programme.

During holiday seasons (Christmas, Easter etc.) we might have 5 or 6 tuners being used at the same time. We don't necessarily watch everything immediately - at the moment UK TV is pretty dire and I'm still catching up on stuff I recorded from December.

Lots of tuners, lots of disk space seems the best way for me. If I haven't watched something I recorded after a month or so, I can always delete it.

Cheers,
Brian

[whurlston]

HDHomerun. BDA drivers are in beta test now, but there are several of us are using it. Only works on digital but no slots to worry about.

Should also mention that the beta bda drivers tune qam.

[RTR]

Hi
I have search for a mb with more pci slots for tuners and highend soundcard
I wanted 5 or 4 +firewire, couldnt find it but found this
http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe.../PDSBE.cfm
and this
http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe.../PDSBA.cfm
both have 4 pci slots and can take core2 duo

Anyone with experience of supermicro

regards
RTR

[prouton]

Supermicro has typically been the board of choice for mission critical systems like servers.

[psycik]

Tell me a bout it, I hap to hunt around for an AM2 mobo with 4 pci, but I found one, the ASUS M2V (the m2v only, no other letters after it). I also found a gigabyte one with 4, I think the GA-M55Plus-S3G. Both of these have got 2 pcix and one pcix-16 (graphics).