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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 X800GTOÂ² 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 3Â½ to 5Â¾ 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...

<blockquote data-quote="BorgmanJayce" data-source="post: 27213" data-attributes="member: 16692">These are the specs that I'm planning on using for my HTPC which I'm calling &quot;Kawaii Ami-chan&quot; 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.===============================================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 SoundcardSapphire Radeon X800GTOÂ² Graphics Card [256MB RAM]2GB 400MHz DDR Non-ECC (3-3-3) DIMMs from Kingston TechnologyLogitech Cordless Desktop MX3100 [Keyboard and Mouse]PCI Wi-Fi Card Athlon 64x2 4400+ CPU [L2 - 1MB Cache]SilverStone NT03 CPU CoolerSilverStone FX121 Cross Flow fan2 Sets of 3Â½ to 5Â¾ HDD Bay Converters4 S-ATA CablesWindows XP Professional EditionMediaPortal 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 TV2) 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...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BorgmanJayce, post: 27213, member: 16692"] 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. =============================================== 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 X800GTOÂ² 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 3Â½ to 5Â¾ 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... [/QUOTE]