Im slowly building up the hardware for my HTPC. (buying a peice a week so it doesnt hit the pocket at 1 go)
so far ive got :
Western Digital 1TB SATAII 7200 rpm HDD [hard drive]
DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Pro [tunner card]
Next I was going to buy
Antec Fusion Black HTPC Desktop Case - Black LCD with IR receiver 430W PSU [case]
What im not sure about is the mother board & video card.. (remembering im trying to do it cheaply)
I was thinking about using the
Asus M2N-VM-DVI F7050/nF630 DDR2 VGA DVI PCIEx16 SATA2 RAID GbLAN mATX
This one has Integrated Geforce®7Series graphics
OR the
ASUS M2A-VM-HDMI AM2 690G PCIEx16 DVI VGA RAID SATA2 GbLAN SND mATX
this one has Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics.
Will this Have enough graphic processing power to run media centre. considering it will be a dedicated media centre, the only other use it will get besides recording, and playing tv/movies is perhapes the occasional game of Fifa. But i can always get an older version of fifa if 07 doesnt run.
Can i please have everyones opinions on the motherboard and intergrated video? or suggestions on a different model
so far ive got :
Western Digital 1TB SATAII 7200 rpm HDD [hard drive]
DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Pro [tunner card]
Next I was going to buy
Antec Fusion Black HTPC Desktop Case - Black LCD with IR receiver 430W PSU [case]
What im not sure about is the mother board & video card.. (remembering im trying to do it cheaply)
I was thinking about using the
Asus M2N-VM-DVI F7050/nF630 DDR2 VGA DVI PCIEx16 SATA2 RAID GbLAN mATX
This one has Integrated Geforce®7Series graphics
OR the
ASUS M2A-VM-HDMI AM2 690G PCIEx16 DVI VGA RAID SATA2 GbLAN SND mATX
this one has Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics.
Will this Have enough graphic processing power to run media centre. considering it will be a dedicated media centre, the only other use it will get besides recording, and playing tv/movies is perhapes the occasional game of Fifa. But i can always get an older version of fifa if 07 doesnt run.
Can i please have everyones opinions on the motherboard and intergrated video? or suggestions on a different model