A crowd funded motherboard(s) for audiophiles - Part 2

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27 minutes ago, Lebouwsky said:

Just out of curiousity, why would a server need more than 1 or 2 PCI-e slots? An usb card is all you need right? What am I missing since everybody votes for micro-atx. From a “low footprint” perspective less seems more to me.

second for nic card. but nowadays you would use usb with direct connection to dac, or ethernet, connected to renderer/streamer, not together(usually), as thats two different concepts. 

So i can live even with one PCI-e. Install usb or nic card, depending what i want.

2 hours ago, lateboomer said:

which 2 for nic card

you dont need to two PCI-e for two nics. take a look on JCAT net card. it has 2 ethernet ports.

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external power, isolation of main board, used much better components, it is important if you are going to use some online services or keep music on NAS or when use streamers. its the same, as use sotm usb card and internal motherboard usb ports, difference is huge.

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I found interesting motherboard with dual ethernet, sata and pci-e and it is on ARM cpu, supports linux.

It is low power mb, which could be great platform for linux music server:

http://www.compulab.com/products/sbcs/sbc-am57x-ti-am5728-am5718-single-board-computer/#specs