Braswell Motherboard (N3700) - ok for HTPC with TBS6205?

[pingadam]

Hi,

I am thinking of building a low-powered (in terms of electricity) HTPC / mini-Home-Server based on the following motherboard:

ASRock N3700-ITX (http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N3700-ITX/index.us.asp)

Specs of "Braswell" Pentium N3700: http://ark.intel.com/products/87261/Intel-Pentium-Processor-N3700-2M-Cache-up-to-2_40-GHz

Also, possibly this Mini-ITX case: http://www.antec.com/product.php?id=2228&pid=91

My question is: would this be suitable or powerful enough for the TBS6205?

I realise the specs say "For HDTV: 2.6 GHz multi core processor" (see: http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6205_dvb_t2_quad_tuner_pcie_card.html)
But there's a big difference between a Pentium 2.6GHz, i3 2.6GHz, i7 2.6GHz, etc.
The N3700 is a quad-core CPU, running at 1.6GHz, but can "turbo boost" (one core at a time possibly? not sure) to 2.4GHz.

I'm not intending to use much HDTV (DVB-T2), probably will use SD (DVB-T) more - and I expect rarely, if ever, to "max the tuners out".

But it would be nice to know if this "Braswell" build would be ok for the TBS6205, just in case?

Also - the Antec ISK 300-150 case can accommodate 1 "half-height" expansion slot: would this be sufficient for the "low-profile" bracket of the TBS6205? (So - is "half-height" the same as "low profile"?).

The "Braswell" would make a very good economical-to-run HTPC & home server, especially if it can take the tuner card. Or, does the TBS6205 need a much more powerful PC (with i5 or i7 etc?)

Many thanks in advance...

Kind regards,

Adam.