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<blockquote data-quote="Aromis" data-source="post: 592653" data-attributes="member: 102975">My brother is getting his house refurbished, as its a old house, and while he is getting it refurbished he has asked me to install a media centrenow i am in it myself, i run my own company thou most of my work is making websites etc i have never actually gotten around to doing a media centrehe wants to try and minimized the impact on electricity, so he wants to have a single pc if possible do all the workhe wants to stick it inside his work office in the garage where he can use it for cad, and then have it networked to all the rooms, so that in each room his kids, and wife can watch the tv shows movies, music stored on itand watch iplayer and 4od thru itof course they all have diffrent tastesso i was wondering how hard is this, now because he is doing cad work it will of course be a intel i7 system with 8gb to 12gb of memory and a hardy graphics card, and he wants a good audio setupnow i told him he would likely need to have two computers one to be the server and one strictly for cadand i also told him i was not sure how you would play music and movies in other rooms without having a computer in each of the other rooms, perhaps he could get away with using 3 of his xbox 360s 1 for himself and 2 for the kidsinput and advice would be appreciated</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aromis, post: 592653, member: 102975"] My brother is getting his house refurbished, as its a old house, and while he is getting it refurbished he has asked me to install a media centre now i am in it myself, i run my own company thou most of my work is making websites etc i have never actually gotten around to doing a media centre he wants to try and minimized the impact on electricity, so he wants to have a single pc if possible do all the work he wants to stick it inside his work office in the garage where he can use it for cad, and then have it networked to all the rooms, so that in each room his kids, and wife can watch the tv shows movies, music stored on it and watch iplayer and 4od thru it of course they all have diffrent tastes so i was wondering how hard is this, now because he is doing cad work it will of course be a intel i7 system with 8gb to 12gb of memory and a hardy graphics card, and he wants a good audio setup now i told him he would likely need to have two computers one to be the server and one strictly for cad and i also told him i was not sure how you would play music and movies in other rooms without having a computer in each of the other rooms, perhaps he could get away with using 3 of his xbox 360s 1 for himself and 2 for the kids input and advice would be appreciated [/QUOTE]

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