HP ProLiant MicroServer

Byrd said:
There seems to be some conflict as to whether or not the Sapphire 6450 GddR3 actually comes with the low profile bracket. Can someone confirm this? Someone with first hand experience that is.

Also suggestions for a supplier - pref - cape town.
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don't think it comes with one, but seems easy enough to make it.

supplier - PostmanPot
 
Messugga said:
No problemo. It's a XBMC setting. I run XBMC Live so my settings are slightly different to yours, but have a look here. I see mention of that option not being available under certain version of Windows.

From the official XBMC wiki: "Hardware video decoding via DirectX Video Acceleration [70][71] is now supported although this enhancement currently only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7 due to the author's currently using the DXVA 2.0 API which is not supported in Windows XP.[72]", so it seems you're out of luck if you want to use XBMC on Windows XP. That being said, Windows 7 scales excellently and runs fine on even Atom-powered netbooks, so although performance won't be stellar on the MicroServer, it would be an easy solution should you insist on going the ATI route.

If, however, you insist on using XP, this is an option for you. Personally, I don't like hack jobs like this and would prefer to avoid it if possible.

Ps. The GPU I purchased from Prophecy is as follows:
1 x Innovision N210-1DDV-C3BX NVIDIA GeForce GT210 512MB DDR3 64-bit A43_N210-1DDV-C3BX R338.13 R385.47 R385.47
It doesn't come with a LP back plate, but that's not a big deal to get around.
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OK, that makes sense. Will build a Win-7 version and see how it goes.

Better to stick to 32-bit?

Still prefer to go 'Live with no hard drive, but need to find a 520.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Better to stick to 32-bit?
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From a quick google, the chipset is optimised to run 64-bit though 32-bit should work. Drivers may be an issue as they apparently don't do 32-bit ones but that only becomes an issue with the onboard display adapter and the SM Bus controller. Stick to 64 bit and be safe rather than sorry.
 
Messugga said:
From a quick google, the chipset is optimised to run 64-bit though 32-bit should work. Drivers may be an issue as they apparently don't do 32-bit ones but that only becomes an issue with the onboard display adapter and the SM Bus controller. Stick to 64 bit and be safe rather than sorry.
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Prefer 64-bit, so that's cool.

Just checked the DXVA thing and it makes a big difference on my desktop PC. CPU utilisation drops away to nothing!
 
Byrd said:
There seems to be some conflict as to whether or not the Sapphire 6450 GddR3 actually comes with the low profile bracket. Can someone confirm this? Someone with first hand experience that is.

Also suggestions for a supplier - pref - cape town.
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I have a Sapphire HD6450 1GB DDR3 from Esquire, It came with a LP Bracket, states it on the box.
The card has 3 outputs, DVI, VGA and HDMI. There are 2 LP Brackets, you attach the one to the card with the DVI and HDMI outputs, then the second bracket is for VGA (So would take 2 slots, VGA attached by ribbon cable). I just left the VGA off.
 
Nivec said:
I have a Sapphire HD6450 1GB DDR3 from Esquire, It came with a LP Bracket, states it on the box.
The card has 3 outputs, DVI, VGA and HDMI. There are 2 LP Brackets, you attach the one to the card with the DVI and HDMI outputs, then the second bracket is for VGA (So would take 2 slots, VGA attached by ribbon cable). I just left the VGA off.
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Thanks Nivec!
 
xrapidx said:
I got that far - but couldn't get hardware acceleration working in XBMC.
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I just installed/compiled the deb packages as per the general instructions and everything worked without issue. My card is a Gigabyte HD5450

EDIT: I'm going to do an XBMCubuntu install this week and will try the 64-bit Ubuntu. Will see if I have problem. I did however have problems the XBMC live distro yesterday at the office but I know that disc was tweaked for NVidia support for some other units the guys in the office are playing with.

Need an extra 2Gigs of RAM though as 1gig was not enough as I got some swap space usuage when watching Tron.
 
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Nivec said:
I have a Sapphire HD6450 1GB DDR3 from Esquire, It came with a LP Bracket, states it on the box.
The card has 3 outputs, DVI, VGA and HDMI. There are 2 LP Brackets, you attach the one to the card with the DVI and HDMI outputs, then the second bracket is for VGA (So would take 2 slots, VGA attached by ribbon cable). I just left the VGA off.
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Haha - I also just took VGA off - I thought the second bracket was if you just wanted HDMI :p
 
cbrunsdonza said:
I just installed/compiled the deb packages as per the general instructions and everything worked without issue. My card is a Gigabyte HD5450

EDIT: I'm going to do an XBMCubuntu install this week and will try the 64-bit Ubuntu. Will see if I have problem. I did however have problems the XBMC live distro yesterday at the office but I know that disc was tweaked for NVidia support for some other units the guys in the office are playing with.

Need an extra 2Gigs of RAM though as 1gig was not enough as I got some swap space usuage when watching Tron.
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Talking XBMC Live though... I tried various guides and they all eventually buggered up at one point... eventually gave up after about 20 hours of trying... Windows was far easier.
 
Ordered mine today.

Next month will make a choice about GFX card.

I would like to use this server as a media streaming server as storage and watching movies.

Any suggestions to what GFX card would be the best?
 
Sentari said:
Ordered mine today.

Next month will make a choice about GFX card.

I would like to use this server as a media streaming server as storage and watching movies.

Any suggestions to what GFX card would be the best?
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Best GPU for graphics has been covered in the tread. Think it is a toss-up between two nVidia's?
Best GPU for storage... THAT is a new question!

New question: will either the 220 or 520 be able to do Seti@home crunching?
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Nope, 10.04LTS and its very stable as long as your not using ATI. For ATI you need to install the ATI drivers from their site.
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From who's site? I installed the one from ATI/AMD - it enabled sound over hdmi but didn't enable hardware acceleration in XBMC.
 
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