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Revision as of 15:01, 19 May 2007

$750 AM2

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 88
Motherboard Asus M2A-VM HDMI 125
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 116
Hard Drive 400GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA 121
Optical Drive 18x Pioneer DVR-212D SATA 46
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec NSK-2400 136
Power Supply Antec 380W High Efficiency included in Case -
Cooling - -
TV Tuner Card Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card 72
Remote MCE Remote and IR receiver 45
Total Cost - 749 + Postage

$1000 Core 2 Duo

Part Model Price Case
CPU Core 2 Duo E4300 155
Motherboard Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD 148
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 116
Hard Drive 500GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA 154
Optical Drive Asus 1814BLT SATA drive - comes with MPEG decoder suitable for MCE 59
Graphics Card 256MB 7600GT w/HDTV 136
Case Antec NSK-2400 136
Power Supply Antec 380W High Efficiency included in Case -
Cooling - -
TV Tuner Card Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card 72
Additional - -
Total Cost - 976 + Postage


For MCE and Vista with analogue TV or a Foxtel/Optus box, the Hauppauge PVR150 is ideal. If you want to do DVB TV, get the Nova-T 500MCE as it has dual tuners - both of these cards are low-profile or standard height. For MythTV under Linux, the AverMedia A777 is natively supported - see www.linuxtv.org for more cards.