Hardware selection opinion (1 Viewer)

[vvulture]

Hi all.
I need your feedback on the harware i am planning on using to build my 2 MP machines.

Here goes.

MP 1 (main unit ):

Athlon 64 3000+ Soc 939
Foxconn NF4 based mobo
1024Mb Corsair DDR 400 ram
3 x Seagate 300Gig SATA HDD's
1 x Seagate 120Gig SATA HDD
Nvidia GF6500 256Mb PCI-e VGA Card
1 x Hauppauge Nova-T-500 MCE Dual Digital tuner PCI
Zalman HD160 HTPC case
Zalman 450watt power supply

MP 2 ( bedroom unit ):

Sempron 2800+ Soc 754
Foxconn NF4 based mobo
512Mb Corsair DDR 400 ram
1 x 80 Gig IDE HDD
Nvidia GF6500 256Mb PCI-e VGA Card
1 x Avermedia A16A Digital tuner PCI
Generic low profile desktop case microATX

I will be running WinXP Pro on both machines. They are currently running MCE2005 and i am getting sick of its mood swings..

Any comments welcome..

cheers

 

[tklon]

An idea would be to swith both systems to the new AM2 Socket from AMD. Both CPUs are available for that socket. Could be an advantage if you want to upgrade the systems later.

A mainboard to try could be the Asus M2NPV-VM with onboard NVIDIA GeForce 6150. It looks promising.

 

[vvulture]

sorry tklon,

i didn't make myself clear.. i already have the gear which i am using with MCE.. i was just wondering if it would be ok to use with MP..

Anyway, i am well beyond this point now.. i have already migrated one machine over, and apart from the very, very slow channel changing time, it seems to run ok.

cheers