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Revision as of 11:40, 25 June 2007

$750 AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ 89
Motherboard Asus M2A-VM HDMI 115
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 88
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 - 728 + Postage

$1000 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Core 2 Duo E4300 139
Motherboard Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD 136
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 80
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 - 903 + 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.