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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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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.

Revision as of 18:31, 7 August 2007

$750 AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ 85
Motherboard Asus M2A-VM HDMI 105
RAM 2GB Corsair DDR2-667 108
Hard Drive 500GB Samsung HD501LJ 139
Optical Drive 18x Pioneer DVR-212D SATA 46
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec NSK-2400 124
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 - 718 + Postage

$1000 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Core 2 Duo E4500 175
Motherboard Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD 136
RAM 2GB Corsair DDR2-667 108
Hard Drive 500GB Samsung HD501LJ 139
Optical Drive Asus 1814BLT SATA drive 48
Graphics Card 256MB 8500GT w/HDTV 94
Case Antec NSK-2400 124
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 - 937 + 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.