I got the generally excellent WGS E-book on building a W8.1 HTPC, which seems to use W8 features to configure IRST (P120) although W8.1 is only installed in the next chapter (Ch7 starting p136).
Also it only seems to cover IRST on the Intel NUC, when to my knowledge most modern UEFI motherboards support it (I have a Gigabyte GA-87M-hd3)
Finally, E-SATA appears the BIOS pictures, but not in the text, so what could I use here? I have a Startech 2-port low profile card that might be useful to add if supported, or could just use brackets from the internal SATA plugs
Can anybody at WGS help?
PS:
I also have the 'Building a W8 server' E-book which seems to duplicate a fair bit of the BYO chapters and there are references to 'server' left in the HTPC book, so I'm not sure if the same applies in both cases?
In fact, can I not build both a server and HTPC in the one PC? and/or are the significant upgrades in hardware spec to handle such? I have an Intel i3-4150T (higher performance than the NUC i5-4250) and 8GB RAM.