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<blockquote data-quote="rien-ne-va-plus" data-source="post: 5666" data-attributes="member: 10466"><p>ok, so if i didn't misunderstand this forum i can post my stupid questions here and nobody will lough...</p><p></p><p>so, im planning a HTPC. i want to use an athlon 2200+ thorton and some kingston value ram and a mediacenter 300i tv card. as HDD i want to use a samsung 120 GB 5400rpm</p><p></p><p>now i dont know what mainboard to use...it has to support the athlon mobile, should have 4 pci (but well, 3 are enough if the board s good) agp for sure...</p><p></p><p>than there is a feature which depends. is it possibel to run windows XP wihtout internal HDD? so i could only use a usb HDD? then the board would have to support that...</p><p></p><p>what board do you recommend? what CPU cooler? (has only 5,5cm height for the cpu cooler left) if boot up from external HDD is possible, which HDD case? well, thx for any answers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rien-ne-va-plus, post: 5666, member: 10466"] ok, so if i didn't misunderstand this forum i can post my stupid questions here and nobody will lough... so, im planning a HTPC. i want to use an athlon 2200+ thorton and some kingston value ram and a mediacenter 300i tv card. as HDD i want to use a samsung 120 GB 5400rpm now i dont know what mainboard to use...it has to support the athlon mobile, should have 4 pci (but well, 3 are enough if the board s good) agp for sure... than there is a feature which depends. is it possibel to run windows XP wihtout internal HDD? so i could only use a usb HDD? then the board would have to support that... what board do you recommend? what CPU cooler? (has only 5,5cm height for the cpu cooler left) if boot up from external HDD is possible, which HDD case? well, thx for any answers [/QUOTE]
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