Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="FeersumEnjin" data-source="post: 154922" data-attributes="member: 51456">Okay,I saw this and couldn't help thinking that it could make a neat bedroom mediacentre/TV, running Mediaportal<a href="http://www.pcchipsusa.com/prod-A950bb.asp" target="_blank">ECS AIO 950 15&quot; TFT Pc</a>Now I need to make a few clarifying statements:1) I have seen this unit for £150 delivered with 2ghz P4 CPU (Don't know if it's Williamette or Northwood) , 256mb ram, 40gb HD and XP Pro 2) All my media is stored on 2 X SAMBA NAS drives so the Hard drive size is not an issue3) TV would be provided by USB DVB-T stick to replace the 14&quot; CRT/DVD TV and Digibox&nbsp; I currently have mounted on the wall via a bracket4)Additionally I would look to install 512-1Gb ram,&nbsp; wifi or DLAN adaptor and a Microsoft MCE Remote as I currently have a keyboard I use on a seperate MediacentreWhat I'm not sure of is whether this will have the &quot;Poke&quot; both from the CPU and the integrated graphics to handle Xvid (Avi) / X.264 (Mkv &amp; Mp4) videos as these are the formats that most of my collection is in.As an example my laptop a P3M 1.2Ghz running Kubuntu can handle the Divx but I'm not so sure about X.264 and linux is lighter on system resources than windowsI don't expect stellar performance and it won't get heavy use so doesn't warrent a lot of cashSo what do you think fella's, Is it worth a shot, I would estimate a total system cost of:£150 for the PC£25 for 1024Mb stick of E-bay bargain ram£20 for an MCE Remote£20 for DVB-T Usb stick£215<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FeersumEnjin, post: 154922, member: 51456"] Okay, I saw this and couldn't help thinking that it could make a neat bedroom mediacentre/TV, running Mediaportal [URL="http://www.pcchipsusa.com/prod-A950bb.asp"]ECS AIO 950 15" TFT Pc[/URL] Now I need to make a few clarifying statements: 1) I have seen this unit for £150 delivered with 2ghz P4 CPU (Don't know if it's Williamette or Northwood) , 256mb ram, 40gb HD and XP Pro 2) All my media is stored on 2 X SAMBA NAS drives so the Hard drive size is not an issue 3) TV would be provided by USB DVB-T stick to replace the 14" CRT/DVD TV and Digibox I currently have mounted on the wall via a bracket 4)Additionally I would look to install 512-1Gb ram, wifi or DLAN adaptor and a Microsoft MCE Remote as I currently have a keyboard I use on a seperate Mediacentre What I'm not sure of is whether this will have the "Poke" both from the CPU and the integrated graphics to handle Xvid (Avi) / X.264 (Mkv & Mp4) videos as these are the formats that most of my collection is in. As an example my laptop a P3M 1.2Ghz running Kubuntu can handle the Divx but I'm not so sure about X.264 and linux is lighter on system resources than windows I don't expect stellar performance and it won't get heavy use so doesn't warrent a lot of cash So what do you think fella's, Is it worth a shot, I would estimate a total system cost of: £150 for the PC £25 for 1024Mb stick of E-bay bargain ram £20 for an MCE Remote £20 for DVB-T Usb stick [COLOR="Red"]£215[/COLOR] :thx: [/QUOTE]

Verification