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General => Users => Topic started by: DeadPenguin on November 29, 2007, 06:17:25 am

Title: Re: Core Server Idea
Post by: DeadPenguin on November 29, 2007, 06:17:25 am
First off - Welcome!!!

I have a couple questions about your current and planned setup.

My first question is this. I know you have read the wiki and forums but have you been here?
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:Hardware (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:Hardware)
This will give you a pretty good idea what has been tested and what worked and what didn't. Also if there are any "tweaks" needed to get a certain piece of hardware to work with LMCE.

For you current setup -
I am not very familar with intel chips past P4's.
The Media director only needs 512MB Ram as far as I can tell and anything else would be overkill from the posts I have read.
I am not sure if the Nvidia driver works well with the 8xxx series cards.
I know Realtek is supported.

For your future setup-
I know you chose the intel  Gigabit board. Why not the one off the Hardware wiki that you know is supported? http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Gigabyte_GA-M61P-S3 (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Gigabyte_GA-M61P-S3)
I don't know intel cpu vs AMD but why not a AMD X2 6000? (to go with the mobo I mentioned above)
You can get away with 1GB ram.
DVD Burners are dirt cheap- LG 20x DVD/RW on Newegg is $25.00
I am not sure about the PSU.
3/ware cards are pretty heavily supported in Linux you should be fine. Make sure if is a hardware raid card. (many people here will debate you on whether or not you need a raid card)
Not sure on the gigabit card. I know I was using a broadcom card with my Ubuntu pc for a while.
Graphics card is not needed if you use the mobo I suggested above.
Tv card. Check Hardware page. - Hauppauge is heavily supported.

Please don't let sway you away from what you where thinking about. If you saw the wiki page already and you want to be the tester for new motherboards and hardware GREAT!!!! thank you!!!  Please let us know how it goes. I am operating on an extremely lean budget so I have to use "known working" hardware.

Best Regards,
Blair







Title: Re: Core Server Idea
Post by: DeadPenguin on November 30, 2007, 04:06:36 am
I would put the TV card in the Core, but I believe it will work in either.

I just wanted to make sure you saw the Hardware wiki page. If you want to try other stuff great. Please let  us know ow it goes.

Thanks,
Blair
Title: Re: Core Server Idea
Post by: totallymaxed on December 01, 2007, 12:17:22 pm
The Media director only needs 512MB Ram as far as I can tell and anything else would be overkill from the posts I have read.
I am not sure if the Nvidia driver works well with the 8xxx series cards.
I know Realtek is supported.

Yep 512mb in an MD is all you need... unless you want to non lmce stuff with KDE apps for example.

Under lmce-0710 the nVidia 7xxx & 8xxx cards are supported by the nVidia driver ;-)