HTPC

$750 AM2

Part	Model	Price	Case
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+	93
Motherboard	Asus M2NPV-VM	119
RAM	1GB A-DATA DDR2-667	79
Hard Drive	320GB Western Digital Caviar SE16	117
Optical Drive	16x Pioneer DVR-111D	39
Graphics Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Case	Cooler Master CM Media 260 HTPC case	105
Power Supply	430W Coolermaster Extreme Power	48
Cooling	-	-
TV Tuner Card	Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card	72
Additional	-	-
Total Cost	-	673 + Postage

$1000 Core 2 Duo

Part	Model	Price	Case
CPU	Core 2 Duo E6320	255
Motherboard	ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI	129
RAM	2x 512MB Generic DDR2 - 2gb if going Vista	68
Hard Drive	320GB Western Digital Caviar SE16	125
Optical Drive	Asus 1814BLT SATA drive - comes with MPEG decoder suitable for MCE	65
Graphics Card	256MB 7600GT w/HDTV	145
Case	Cooler Master CM Media 260 HTPC case	105
Power Supply	430W Coolermaster Extreme Power	48
Cooling	-	-
TV Tuner Card	Twinhan VisionPlus VP3020C TV Tuner Card	72
Additional	-	-
Total Cost	-	966 + 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.