<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Phil Jordan <lists@philjordan.eu> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">Mitch Gore wrote:<br>> Anyone ever used one of these?<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153114" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153114</a><br>
><br>> Looks like a great Front end board or HDHomerun Backend<br>><br>> Nvidia 8 8200 Chipset/Graphics<br>> 4 Sata ports<br>> 2 serial port (IR)<br>> 2 ethernet ports (HD Homerun)<br>> Athlon 64 X2<br>
> DVI+VGA (Says it does SPDIF over HDMI, not sure if you could get that t<br>> work)<br>><br>> all on a mini-itx board!<br>><br>> Reviews looks positive but couldnt find any linux reviews.<br><br></div></div>
The current issue of c't magazine (German) has a less than favourable<br>review on that board. The chipset fan is apparently rather noisy, and<br>there are stability problems with 3D and MPEG acceleration. Linux does<br>
run, they don't specifically mention stability of the graphics chip on<br>Linux, however. Furthermore, although it's an AM2+ board, you can't run<br>it with any of the currently available Phenom chips, as it's only<br>
specified for up to 65W.<br><br>~phil<br></blockquote>
<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I fully intend to buy one of these for my living room as a myth frontend and pair it with an AMD X2 4850.</div>
<div>(FYI According to the manual you can use two of those audio jacks as S/PDIF in and out)</div>
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<div>Also, here is a positve review of it:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/05/20/jetway-jnc62k-geforce-8200-mini-itx/1">http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/05/20/jetway-jnc62k-geforce-8200-mini-itx/1</a></div>
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<div>(I notice there is no fan on the chipset, just a large heat sink?)</div>
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<div>Anyway, I'll let you all now how it does later this year :)</div>
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<div>(that is unless Jetway's AMD 780g based mini-itx board comes out first)</div>
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<div>J1M.</div></div>