HDTV Upgrade suggestions\ideas welcome

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi to All

Looking to update my PC, which is my HTPC but need to do more tha MP can Handle (at moment).
Prerequisites are:

Capable of running MP (of course)
Video editing\encoding at the fastest Pace (need to get back to MP :lol: )
Preparing for HDTV

So i'm looking at,

AMD Athlon X2 4200
Abit AV8-3RD Eye Skt 939 K8t800pro 8xAGP ATX
OCZ Premier Dual Channel Kit 4x512MB DDR400 PC3200
Sansun Arctic 550w Modular PSU
Fusion HDTV DVB-T Dual Freeview Digital PCI TV Tuner Card
Seagate ST3250823AS 250GB 7200RPM SATA/150 8MB Cache
Philips 26" digital widescreen flat TV model 26PF5520D/10

Keeping both other Hard disks, Question which would you use as system disk, Sata or IDE ?

Any suggestions\alternative ideas are very welcome, Yes this is a boys toy, we all have to have a hobby

And remember FUNDS are not unlimited hence keeping perfectly good graphics card plus the rest below that fits, That's why motherboard must have AGP.

Good reading and all alternative's\suggestions welcome

8)

[flokel]

If you really want fast video encoding you should switch to a new ati card ( -> avivo: http://www.ati.com/technology/avivo/index.html)
For example a passively cooled x1300.

[Callifo]

From the benchies the avivo feature was looking good and that worked with most codecs. Wonder if it would work with the same benefits on the purevideo codec; best of both worlds

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hey Guys

Leave the Graphic card alone, only 3months old and will do HDTV and play Doom3. Any other suggestions :wink:

[tomtom21000]

think about getting a cheaper cpu and invest the saving into a bigger TV.
But than, you know your preferences and viewing distances better than me.

tomtom

[Paranoid Delusion]

tomtom21000

Na too big a Tv, optician say's need reading glasses, not binoculars :lol:

[NLS]

definately need a bigger TV

what is your viewing distance?

now that there are no "electron beam in your eye" problems, people tend to use a diagonal of about 1/2-1/3 times the viewing distance

so for three meters viewing distance for example, a 37" would be barely adequate and 26" out of the question... 26" is even smaller than the classic-size of 29" for CRT

size gives a nice immersion feeling (and nowadays doesn't hurt the eyes as I said)... like when changing to a much better (and bigger) monitor for computers feels like upgrading the whole computer

[Brocklander]

Surely you'd want a bigger screen, rather than marginally improved compression times? I'll echo what the other guys have said, how far from the TV are you?

I'd halve the RAM and get a lowerspec X2 chip, then spend the rest on the TV (Don't you hate comments like that?). With gaming at least it'll be your graphics card holding you back more than the CPU (Just tried Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter at 720p and it will REALLY kill a system).

[patrick]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Delusion

Hi to All
Keeping both other Hard disks, Question which would you use as system disk, Sata or IDE ?

I use SATA for the drive I have WinXP installed on, works fine, IDE for the recordings. Looking at the forums there seemed to be people having issues using SATA for recording/playback.
See: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=15291

Note: I did not do a lot of research (almost a year ago when I build it) so could be things have changed. Also at the time IDE was still cheaper for large storage so it made the decision easy for me.

HTH,
patrick