Slovenia
Hy,
I'm reading this forum for about a week now i get a lot of usefull informations. I was totaly in HTPC about 2, 3 years ago. But really didn't like some solutions (Didn't knww for MP) so i never start up building my own HTPC. Few days ago i came to this site and find out that MP is just great and can do almost everything i want. So i'm building HTPC.
I made list of hardware fot it. But please can you give me any suggestions about it, becouse i don't want to overbuy/overpay anything
Spec:
1. Procesor AMD ATHLON 64 5000+ X2 Dualcore Box, AM2
The only thing that i'm concerned is that it neds 89W. What should be a good substitute?
2. MOBO Asus M3A78-EH, AM2+/AM2
I intend to run audio to amplifier via SPDIF. I was reading about 44.1/48/96 problem. I was looking info about the audio chipset on this MOBO (link) and it looks like it can do the job? Can somebody please confirm that.
4. OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI-Ready 2GB kit (2x 1GB) 1066MHz
I was reading that 2GB of RAM should be enough. Or would it be better to go with 4GB?
6. Hard drive Seagate 500GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, NCQ, SATAII
I'm planing to have almost all data on external drives, becouse great benefit to me is that i can take my data outside the house:
7. Graphic card Asus EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/512M, 512MB, PCI-e
Do i need good graphic card or should be the integrate one enough?
8. DVD recorder NEC AD-7203S Labelflash,
9. Logitech Harmony
I'm not sure which one, but i'm sure it will be one of them
I will be using IPTV. Do i need for every channel that i want to watch/record simultaneously extra Network card or can go more programs thru one?
That should be it for now. I'm sure that i have more questions stuck somewhere in my brain, but can't remember anyone right now.
Thanks to all in advance
I'm reading this forum for about a week now i get a lot of usefull informations. I was totaly in HTPC about 2, 3 years ago. But really didn't like some solutions (Didn't knww for MP) so i never start up building my own HTPC. Few days ago i came to this site and find out that MP is just great and can do almost everything i want. So i'm building HTPC.
I made list of hardware fot it. But please can you give me any suggestions about it, becouse i don't want to overbuy/overpay anything
Spec:
1. Procesor AMD ATHLON 64 5000+ X2 Dualcore Box, AM2
The only thing that i'm concerned is that it neds 89W. What should be a good substitute?
2. MOBO Asus M3A78-EH, AM2+/AM2
I intend to run audio to amplifier via SPDIF. I was reading about 44.1/48/96 problem. I was looking info about the audio chipset on this MOBO (link) and it looks like it can do the job? Can somebody please confirm that.
4. OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI-Ready 2GB kit (2x 1GB) 1066MHz
I was reading that 2GB of RAM should be enough. Or would it be better to go with 4GB?
6. Hard drive Seagate 500GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, NCQ, SATAII
I'm planing to have almost all data on external drives, becouse great benefit to me is that i can take my data outside the house:
7. Graphic card Asus EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/512M, 512MB, PCI-e
Do i need good graphic card or should be the integrate one enough?
8. DVD recorder NEC AD-7203S Labelflash,
9. Logitech Harmony
I'm not sure which one, but i'm sure it will be one of them
I will be using IPTV. Do i need for every channel that i want to watch/record simultaneously extra Network card or can go more programs thru one?
That should be it for now. I'm sure that i have more questions stuck somewhere in my brain, but can't remember anyone right now.
Thanks to all in advance