HP ProLiant Turion II N40L and digital sound Q

bricktop · 2012-05-15 00:05

im going to get this micro server HP a doing a deal till the end of the month £100 off so seems like a great deal

problem i have theough it looks like it only has one expansion slot which i will use of the GPU but i also need digital out spdif or poss toslink

how would i go about this or what would be the best solution?

thanks

http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant...658553-421

bricktop · 2012-05-15 18:07

anyone?

QLink · 2012-05-15 21:35

take a look here

it has 2 expansion slots: PCIE x16 and PCIE x1

as you can see in the thread linked above i use a HD6450 gfx card which has also a hd soundcard onboard.

if you really need toslink instead of hdmi you can try to add a splitter like this.

bricktop · 2012-05-15 22:44

thanks for the reply Qlink,

thanks for the link not seen your thread before looks good mate, mine will only be for XBMC and on linux, i had just noticed that it has 2 pcie slots so am now looking to add a sound card

the Asus Xonar DG 5.1 which will give me an optical out, would have liked to have a coaxial out option as well but i guess ya cant have everything.

thomasbeagle · 2012-07-26 05:56

Asus Xonar DGX is a low profile PCIe card that has optical out. It also fits in the HP Microserver.

If you're using Ubuntu/XBMC you'll need to compile the very latest copy of ALSA (1.0.25 nightly)

bricktop Member Posts: 83 Joined: Sep 2011 Reputation: 1 Location: UK, Cornwall	2012-05-15 18:07 Post: #2 anyone? Eden 11.0 / Confluence Windows 7 Ulitimate 64bit HP ProLiant Turion II N40L MicroServer MSI GT520 1GB DDR3 DVI HDMI VGA PCI-E Low Profile Graphics Card Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333MHz i5 Memory Kit Non-ECC CL9 1.5V
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QLink Senior Member Posts: 147 Joined: Jun 2011 Reputation: 4	2012-05-15 21:35 Post: #3 take a look here it has 2 expansion slots: PCIE x16 and PCIE x1 as you can see in the thread linked above i use a HD6450 gfx card which has also a hd soundcard onboard. if you really need toslink instead of hdmi you can try to add a splitter like this. (This post was last modified: 2012-05-15 21:36 by QLink.)
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thomasbeagle Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-07-26 05:56 Post: #5 Asus Xonar DGX is a low profile PCIe card that has optical out. It also fits in the HP Microserver. If you're using Ubuntu/XBMC you'll need to compile the very latest copy of ALSA (1.0.25 nightly)
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