Hi Everyone,
I have just finished my setup for media portal, i had been tossing it up for ages what to run media portal or vista media centre, as i wanted ease of use and reliability. I started with media portal and loved it, how you can customise just about anything, it loves divx movies and dvd movies, plus you can run analog tv / digital tv along side one and another (something vista media centre just cant do) I then changed to vista media centre, but it just couldnt live up to my expectations that media portal can.
Most of this HTPC was build from spare parts i was able to get, all up it has cost me a total of $300
Listed below is the specs of my HTPC
HTPC Case :
Antec NSK2480 (would have loved a Antec Fusion, but i am very happy with this case )
Motherboard :
Basic Acer Motherboard, has average sound etc, has SATA1 and can run a P4 3.0ghz. Does all i need it too do
CPU :
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.60Ghz
Memory :
2 x 512Mb DDR PC3200
Powersupply:
220 Watt Acer thing, as the Antec 380 Watt wouldnt connect to my motherboard.
Case fans :
2 x 120MM Case Fans, Have 3 Speed settings, and really quite on low or medium.
Videocard:
Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP - 256mb DDR2
Has no fan so quiet, has DVI out / VGA out / SVIDEO Out
Harddisk :
2x Seagate 160Gb IDE HDDs 7200 Rpm
DVD player:
Pioneer DVD-ROM
I might get a DVD-RW Drive when i have some money, at the moment i have a laptop for burning stuff.
Digital Tuners:
2 x Happague HVR-1300's
Setup so i can record Austar
TV:
ViewSonic 37" HD LCD
Remotes:
Microsoft Media Centre Remote
Microsoft Media Centre Keyboard
Hope all like the setup, i will have a few pics of it later on this week
I have just finished my setup for media portal, i had been tossing it up for ages what to run media portal or vista media centre, as i wanted ease of use and reliability. I started with media portal and loved it, how you can customise just about anything, it loves divx movies and dvd movies, plus you can run analog tv / digital tv along side one and another (something vista media centre just cant do) I then changed to vista media centre, but it just couldnt live up to my expectations that media portal can.
Most of this HTPC was build from spare parts i was able to get, all up it has cost me a total of $300
Listed below is the specs of my HTPC
HTPC Case :
Antec NSK2480 (would have loved a Antec Fusion, but i am very happy with this case
)Motherboard :
Basic Acer Motherboard, has average sound etc, has SATA1 and can run a P4 3.0ghz. Does all i need it too do
CPU :
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.60Ghz
Memory :
2 x 512Mb DDR PC3200
Powersupply:
220 Watt Acer thing, as the Antec 380 Watt wouldnt connect to my motherboard.
Case fans :
2 x 120MM Case Fans, Have 3 Speed settings, and really quite on low or medium.
Videocard:
Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP - 256mb DDR2
Has no fan so quiet, has DVI out / VGA out / SVIDEO Out
Harddisk :
2x Seagate 160Gb IDE HDDs 7200 Rpm
DVD player:
Pioneer DVD-ROM
I might get a DVD-RW Drive when i have some money, at the moment i have a laptop for burning stuff.
Digital Tuners:
2 x Happague HVR-1300's
Setup so i can record Austar
TV:
ViewSonic 37" HD LCD
Remotes:
Microsoft Media Centre Remote
Microsoft Media Centre Keyboard
Hope all like the setup, i will have a few pics of it later on this week
