UbuntuWiki:ASUS M2NSLI-DELUXE
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* specification of the board: see ASUS home page
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soft factors
- it looks really nice with the passive cooling stuff
- it is really good managing the noise level depending on the CPU load (good for living rooms and MythTV boxes)
installation
- installed Ubuntu 7.06 on
- 2 hard drives with a Linux SW RAID1 root partition to keep it fast and secure against failure, and another RAID0 partition with huge space for the movies we record using MythTV
- AMD 64x2 processor
- 2GB RAM
- 'old' analog TV card
- 2 graphic cards (Nvidia, cheepest I could find) to support
- 1 projector for MythTV viewing
- 1-2 screens for desktop work
- then upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10
performance
- when coming from an AMD64 machine from shelf (HP), this is a real runner
- the 2 cores of the AMD64x2 make the system really nice to handle, you nearly never wait for anything
- the harddrives are much faster than in my old board (HP destop PC for home use)
- MythTV consumes 10-15% CPU load => plenty of room for work on the desktop screen while rest of the family watches TV
problems
- AUDIO:
- the HD audio chipset gives problems
- It seems like it is not fully supported by the kernel
- I need to connect the TV card to the microphone input of the board, because I cannot get good audio levels with the on-board connector for CD audio
- it is simply not possible to listen to an audio input source other than PCM.
- this is no problem with MythTV, as this setup always first records from an input and plays sound via PCM => works
- this is no problem for playing MP3, ogg, radio, etc. because all of these use PCM
- this is no problem for wathching DVDs or internet video clips/shows/TV because the movie players use PCM
- this is a problem if you want to do pre-listening to your recordings
- this is a problem if you want to use a standard TV application to watch TV with your TV card: then you need to connect your loudspeakers/amplifier directly to the TV card instead of the mixer output of the motherboard.
- however, the board produces low-noise fine sound when playing PCM
Overall
- this is the best desktop Linux setup i ever run
- the price of the board is really ok for the quality and performance you get (even w/o overclocking)
- i feel that the HD controller is really faster than the normal controllers used by cheaper chipsets
- i do not test it with games, etc., mostly with desktop and multimedia applications
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