HTPC

Revision as of 20:32, 11 June 2007

$750 AMD

Part	Model	Price
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+	88
Motherboard	Asus M2A-VM HDMI	115
RAM	2GB Kingston DDR2-667	86
Hard Drive	500GB Samsung HD501LJ	154
Optical Drive	18x Pioneer DVR-212D SATA	46
Graphics Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Case	Antec NSK-2400	125
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	39
Total Cost	-	725 + Postage

$1000 Intel

Part	Model	Price
CPU	Core 2 Duo E4300	139
Motherboard	Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD	136
RAM	2GB Kingston DDR2-667	86
Hard Drive	500GB Samsung HD501LJ	154
Optical Drive	Asus 1814BLT SATA drive - comes with MPEG decoder suitable for MCE	55
Graphics Card	256MB 8500GT w/HDTV	103
Case	Antec NSK-2400	125
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	39
Total Cost	-	909 + 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.

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