HP ProLiant MicroServer

[SomeoneEls]

Sapphire 6450 fits well, maximum power usage is about 15W

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_6450_Passive/25.html

It comes with 2 low profile brackets (HDMI+DVI & VGA) and it is passively cooled. It's also HDMI 1.4a compatible

TDP's about 31w for the ddr5 or 27w for the ddr3...

As with the 5450's the only problem is if you want to use XBMC live cos the ATI drivers for linux suck

 

[D4N]

TDP's about 31w for the ddr5 or 27w for the ddr3...

Source?

 

[stroebs]

Sapphire 6450 fits well, maximum power usage is about 15W

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_6450_Passive/25.html

It comes with 2 low profile brackets (HDMI+DVI & VGA) and it is passively cooled. It's also HDMI 1.4a compatible

Yeah I am getting this card. It's cheap and you'll get decent HD playback.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Getting my server tomorrow and will first see how it works before I get a card. Going to use it for the kids animated DVDs as I'm tired of seeing my movies getting trashed (got over 50 DVDs and my collection is growing).

Order a cheap MCE remote from Takealot Amazon portal (with some other stuff) and undecided if I'm going to use Debian or Ubuntu, probably try both.

 

[stroebs]

Getting my server tomorrow and will first see how it works before I get a card. Going to use it for the kids animated DVDs as I'm tired of seeing my movies getting trashed (got over 50 DVDs and my collection is growing).

Order a cheap MCE remote from Takealot Amazon portal (with some other stuff) and undecided if I'm going to use Debian or Ubuntu, probably try both.

Only thing that won't work out-the-box with these servers is audio.

See this image and you'll see it has no audio out, only VGA.

Prety excited though. Getting mine on Friday

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Only thing that won't work out-the-box with these servers is audio.

See this image and you'll see it has no audio out, only VGA.

Prety excited though. Getting mine on Friday

Thanks, no audio true.

Just got mine and where playing with it in the office with a live XBMC CD. Well worth R1200.

 

[PostmanPot]

Guys I'm getting a few more HP MS in. R1,000 each. Stocks are limited.

http://mybroadband.co.za/classified...uct=21530&title=hp-proliant-microserver&cat=3

 

[fiaskow]

The MS went on sale on HPShop.co.za for R999. I ordered mine!

 

[spiderz]

The MS went on sale on HPShop.co.za for R999. I ordered mine!

Woot!!!
Just ordered mine too !!!

 

[Boomstomp]

Ekt ok vanoggend dit gesien, het sommer 2 bestel

 

[gotaway]

Yikes boomstomp I was thinking to do the same. 1 for storage, 1 for media centre

 

[SomeoneEls]

Source?

My bad read wrong off a table it's 27w for the ddr5 and 20w for the ddr3

The ddr5 is often said to be 31watts though as well and without actual specs from AMD on there site and so many versions of the '6450' not sure what the actual figures are

 

[Boomstomp]

Yikes boomstomp I was thinking to do the same. 1 for storage, 1 for media centre

Dis presies my plan

Gaan vir nou eers net met die ene rondspeel met OS, en dit vir NAS gebruik. Gaan ander ene heel moontlik in HTPC ombou of aan PS3 koppel.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Just bought a LP HD5450 from my local PC store for R450, installed it and now I just need to install my OS

 

[SomeoneEls]

Just bought a LP HD5450 from my local PC store for R450, installed it and now I just need to install my OS

What OS are you planning on using?

 

[gotaway]

Just bought a LP HD5450 from my local PC store for R450, installed it and now I just need to install my OS

Let us know what you needed to do to get the HD5450 to work on Linux please

 

[jannievanzyl]

Yeah I got the PointOfView GT520 in my HP (actively cooled), didn't come with a LP bracket, but otherwise fits fine.

Does this card do audio via HDMI or how do you get audio to your TV from XBMC with this PointOfView GT520 card?

 

[naeem.ally]

Hi

Just got my server today.
Which cards do hdmi 1.4?
I'm also keen to know who got the ATI cards working in Linux (which distro)?

 

[SomeoneEls]

Does this card do audio via HDMI or how do you get audio to your TV from XBMC with this PointOfView GT520 card?

IT does do audio over HDMI

Hi

Just got my server today.
Which cards do hdmi 1.4?
I'm also keen to know who got the ATI cards working in Linux (which distro)?

GT520 and 6450 AFAIK are the only one's with HMDI 1.4 that will work/fit in a HP MS the 6450 will probably still have issues in linux

 

[naeem.ally]

Will this card http://www.prophecy.co.za/asus-nvidia-geforce-gt520-silent-ddr3-64bit-pcie-p-91375.html fit in the HP MS?
I saw a few variants of gt520's, not sure what the differences are.