England
Hiya, I was just wondering if anyone could look through my planned HTPC and just give me a heads up with anything that I might be doing horribly wrong. This is my first build, I have a friend at work that has recently got a media centre. However he bought it pre packaged and I thought it would be a lot more entertaining to make my own. I have recently upgraded my gaming PC with a new CPU, RAM and mobo, also I had a spare gfx card that I am not currently using. So having some spare hardware I thought I’d make myself one. I was looking at the windows media centre OS but having now stumbled across media portal I will not be bothering as it more than suits my needs.
Anyway this is my set up that I’ve planned.
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI SE (ATX)
limits my case choices
CPU: AMD 64 3700+
RAM: got currently 4 sticks of 512 so I can take out 2 if needed for space
GFX: BFG 7900 GT OC PCI-E worried about this fitting in the case but should be ok looking at pictures
I can’t get away from the above, I have them spare so I am going to try to use them. Below are the items I’ll be buying in the next week or so.
HDD: 640GB Western Digital 3 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
TV tuner: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500 Dual digital DVB-T PCI TV card
PSU: Corsair Memory 650W TX SERIES ATX
Case: Silverstone LC17 case
3 case coolers: Akasa 80x25mm Black - Lo-Noise
Drive: LiteOn 16x48x SATA DVD-Rom Black (not really bothered about writing anything with the unit as itll be on my home network and i already have 2 pcs with DVD RWs on it)
Planning on upgrading with a 2nd tv tuner and another HDD 1TB a month after if this build works that is.
Just really opening the floor to any suggestions to if I’m making a mistake with any of the components. My biggest worry is that i know little to nothing about TV cards but from what i've read up on, this seems a good card for just freeview digital TV. Guna try to keep this up to date with my progress and hopefully pictures if i can find my camera
Anyway this is my set up that I’ve planned.
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI SE (ATX)
limits my case choicesCPU: AMD 64 3700+
RAM: got currently 4 sticks of 512 so I can take out 2 if needed for space
GFX: BFG 7900 GT OC PCI-E worried about this fitting in the case but should be ok looking at pictures
I can’t get away from the above, I have them spare so I am going to try to use them. Below are the items I’ll be buying in the next week or so.
HDD: 640GB Western Digital 3 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
TV tuner: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500 Dual digital DVB-T PCI TV card
PSU: Corsair Memory 650W TX SERIES ATX
Case: Silverstone LC17 case
3 case coolers: Akasa 80x25mm Black - Lo-Noise
Drive: LiteOn 16x48x SATA DVD-Rom Black (not really bothered about writing anything with the unit as itll be on my home network and i already have 2 pcs with DVD RWs on it)
Planning on upgrading with a 2nd tv tuner and another HDD 1TB a month after if this build works that is.
Just really opening the floor to any suggestions to if I’m making a mistake with any of the components. My biggest worry is that i know little to nothing about TV cards but from what i've read up on, this seems a good card for just freeview digital TV. Guna try to keep this up to date with my progress and hopefully pictures if i can find my camera
