United Kingdom
Heres my first attempt at a HTPC
any comments/Questions are welcome..
Thermaltake mozart case with medialab option VC4001SNS
Athlon xp 2500 barton 1.8Ghz (was running at 2.2Ghz with no probs) temps no higher than 42'C
Gigabyte G-power cooler pro (running at minimum speed)
Gigabyte ga-7n400 pro2 motherboard
1Gb pc2700 333Mhz Twinmos ram
Radeon 9800 se 128Mb agp (soft modded to 9800 pro)
with thermaltake fanless vga cooler CL-G0003
Creatix wireless g 54Mb card
Medion SAA7134 DVB-T Hybrid tuner pci tuner
haupage WINNOVA-T DVB-T pci tuner
Pioneer dvr-108 dual layer dvd-rw
300Gb Maxtor hard drive
200Gb Maxtor hard drive
winxp pro
17" crt monitor
Thomson 28" pure flat widescreen tv
pc is connected to tv via scart cable
audio is set up as 4 channel with one output going to the tv through the scart plug and the other channel going to my sony hi-fi.
all my files are stored on my other pc's hard drives and are accessed via netgear Dg834g v2 wireless router
i'm using the imon remote to power on the pc and for controling windows, and for media portal i'm using a medion x10 remote because the imon remote is too sensitive.
i cant decide whether to have the vfd running the standard info and the graphic equalizer while using media portal, or to have it showing the media portal info.? if i have it showing the media portal info i cant get it to show the equalizer which is quite cool.
Other pc's specs..
Thermaltake Kandalf case
Intel prescott p4 550 3.4Ghz 1Mb cache (idles at 41'C max 51'C)
Artic cooling freezer 7 (running at minimun speed)
Asus P5GD1 PRO motherboard
1Gb pc3200 400Mhz samsung ram
Radeon X800 GTO Fireblade 256Mb PCI-X <- replaced with asus 256mb x1950pro pci-e card.
PCI IDE Raid card
Pioneer dvr-108 dual layer dvd-rw
pioneer dvd-rom
Maxtor 250Gb SATA hard drive
Maxtor 200Gb SATA hard drive
Seagate 120Gb ATA133 hard drive
Western Digital 80Gb ATA133 hard drive
17" Sony Lcd monitor
!7" Proview Lcd monitor
also going to add a 200Gb Maxtor shared storage drive.
any comments/Questions are welcome..
Thermaltake mozart case with medialab option VC4001SNS
Athlon xp 2500 barton 1.8Ghz (was running at 2.2Ghz with no probs) temps no higher than 42'C
Gigabyte G-power cooler pro (running at minimum speed)
Gigabyte ga-7n400 pro2 motherboard
1Gb pc2700 333Mhz Twinmos ram
Radeon 9800 se 128Mb agp (soft modded to 9800 pro)
with thermaltake fanless vga cooler CL-G0003
Creatix wireless g 54Mb card
Medion SAA7134 DVB-T Hybrid tuner pci tuner
haupage WINNOVA-T DVB-T pci tuner
Pioneer dvr-108 dual layer dvd-rw
300Gb Maxtor hard drive
200Gb Maxtor hard drive
winxp pro
17" crt monitor
Thomson 28" pure flat widescreen tv
pc is connected to tv via scart cable
audio is set up as 4 channel with one output going to the tv through the scart plug and the other channel going to my sony hi-fi.
all my files are stored on my other pc's hard drives and are accessed via netgear Dg834g v2 wireless router
i'm using the imon remote to power on the pc and for controling windows, and for media portal i'm using a medion x10 remote because the imon remote is too sensitive.
i cant decide whether to have the vfd running the standard info and the graphic equalizer while using media portal, or to have it showing the media portal info.? if i have it showing the media portal info i cant get it to show the equalizer which is quite cool.
Other pc's specs..
Thermaltake Kandalf case
Intel prescott p4 550 3.4Ghz 1Mb cache (idles at 41'C max 51'C)
Artic cooling freezer 7 (running at minimun speed)
Asus P5GD1 PRO motherboard
1Gb pc3200 400Mhz samsung ram
Radeon X800 GTO Fireblade 256Mb PCI-X <- replaced with asus 256mb x1950pro pci-e card.
PCI IDE Raid card
Pioneer dvr-108 dual layer dvd-rw
pioneer dvd-rom
Maxtor 250Gb SATA hard drive
Maxtor 200Gb SATA hard drive
Seagate 120Gb ATA133 hard drive
Western Digital 80Gb ATA133 hard drive
17" Sony Lcd monitor
!7" Proview Lcd monitor
also going to add a 200Gb Maxtor shared storage drive.