- November 28, 2005
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These are the specs that I'm planning on using for my HTPC which I'm calling "Kawaii Ami-chan" after Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon and which I plan on building in the near future when my finances are better and I just need some comments to whether the specs are good for a HTPC.
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SilverStone SG01B Sugo Computer Case [Silver]
Gigabyte GA-K8NMF-9 Motherboard
Seasonic S12-600 PSU
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA v3.0 Hard Drives [Equivalent to 2TB of Hard Drive Space]
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Soundcard
Sapphire Radeon X800GTO² Graphics Card [256MB RAM]
2GB 400MHz DDR Non-ECC (3-3-3) DIMMs from Kingston Technology
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3100 [Keyboard and Mouse]
PCI Wi-Fi Card
Athlon 64x2 4400+ CPU [L2 - 1MB Cache]
SilverStone NT03 CPU Cooler
SilverStone FX121 Cross Flow fan
2 Sets of 3½ to 5¾ HDD Bay Converters
4 S-ATA Cables
Windows XP Professional Edition
MediaPortal for Windows XP Professional Edition [mediaportal.sourceforge.net]
I also have a couple of questions...
1) What's a good TV Tuner card to use if you want to use it with a regular Sky TV decoder box to record programs from Sky TV
2) This is more Windows XP related but I wanted to know what the picture quality is like on a regular CRT TV when viewing files like text files and PDF's for example...
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SilverStone SG01B Sugo Computer Case [Silver]
Gigabyte GA-K8NMF-9 Motherboard
Seasonic S12-600 PSU
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA v3.0 Hard Drives [Equivalent to 2TB of Hard Drive Space]
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Soundcard
Sapphire Radeon X800GTO² Graphics Card [256MB RAM]
2GB 400MHz DDR Non-ECC (3-3-3) DIMMs from Kingston Technology
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3100 [Keyboard and Mouse]
PCI Wi-Fi Card
Athlon 64x2 4400+ CPU [L2 - 1MB Cache]
SilverStone NT03 CPU Cooler
SilverStone FX121 Cross Flow fan
2 Sets of 3½ to 5¾ HDD Bay Converters
4 S-ATA Cables
Windows XP Professional Edition
MediaPortal for Windows XP Professional Edition [mediaportal.sourceforge.net]
I also have a couple of questions...
1) What's a good TV Tuner card to use if you want to use it with a regular Sky TV decoder box to record programs from Sky TV
2) This is more Windows XP related but I wanted to know what the picture quality is like on a regular CRT TV when viewing files like text files and PDF's for example...