PVR Survey
(1) Micronics P90 Powerstation Motherboard in a custom server case.
(2) I had to sacrifice a 3 1/2" drive bracket which was suspended from the main
bay area. I still have three 5 1/4" and one 3 1/2" bays open, though.
Three 5 1/4" bays and one 3 1/2" bays are being used by other thingys.
After removing the bracket, the first PCI slot is available for the PVR. The
Micronics MB has integrated IDE. <see #4 also>
(3) 2 PCI, 1 PCI,ISA
(4) The daughter card renders the adjacent PCI slot unusable. It also comes
VERY close to the CPU heatsink.
(5) I purchased the motherboard as part of a system direct from Micron.
(6) If you already have one of these motherboards around, I would not hesitate
recommending it. You may have to change cases, though. I am not familiar with
the Micron tower case configuration. If you are building a PVR system, however,
I would recommend a PCI/EISA MB with SMP support. I noticed a photograph of a
Tri-Star system motherboard the other day with 4 PCI slots and dual pentium
sockets. The first three PCI slots were wide open! The fourth was questionable.