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Revision as of 13:51, 3 November 2007

$750 AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 144
Antec NSK-2400
Motherboard Asus M2A-VM HDMI 99
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 65
Hard Drive 500GB Samsung HD501LJ 129
Optical Drive 18x Pioneer DVR-212D SATA 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec NSK-2400 130
Power Supply Antec 380W High Efficiency included in Case -
Cooling - -
TV Tuner Card Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card 55
Remote MCE Remote and IR receiver 39
Total Cost - 696 + Postage

$750 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 105
Motherboard Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD 132
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 65
Hard Drive 500GB Samsung HD501LJ 129
Optical Drive Asus 1814BLT SATA drive 40
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec NSK-2400 130
Power Supply Antec 380W High Efficiency included in Case -
Cooling - -
TV Tuner Card Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card 55
Remote MCE Remote and IR receiver 39
Total Cost - 697 + 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.