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[Klept]

Hey all..

I've put MP through my initial testing and love it. Time to put together a HTPC.

I need hardware advice. It's been soooo long since i've been in the market and technology has taken advantage of me.

I'm currently running an old MSI K7N2 MB, Athlon XP 3000 or something. Barely 1gig processor.

Whats a good Motherboard CPU combo. I want to snappy response time from the UI, Good Recording that does not slow down the machine to an unusable state..

Also - If I have two Sata Drives, with movies on both drives, how can I configure MP to display them all seemlessy (Appearing to all be in the same folder) w/o having to switch to two locations.

 

[Shurik]

I've got P4 3GHz, 1Gb memory and it's pretty fast and good.. But if you want to play HD and BlueRay (eventually), you'd better invest in a dual core.. At least that's what I hear.

Junction.exe from Sysinternals is your friend, if you want to have reparse points.

 

[Klept]

I've got P4 3GHz, 1Gb memory and it's pretty fast and good.. But if you want to play HD and BlueRay (eventually), you'd better invest in a dual core.. At least that's what I hear.

Junction.exe from Sysinternals is your friend, if you want to have reparse points.

Wow - Junction.exe is PERFECT! Thanks for that..

On the other, Whats a similar equivalent of P4 3ghz in an AMD chip?

I've also read about ppl using semperon chips etc.. That seems nuts to me, but I guess if your just watching ripped DVD's you don't need the horsepower. Do they do this for the coolness, and quietness of them?

 

[Klept]

Junction.exe from Sysinternals is your friend, if you want to have reparse points.

Actually - I'm not sure junction will do what I need. Basically I have:
D:\Movies1
E:\Movies2

I want to have all the movies from both drives show up in one location. I see with junction.exe I could make D:\Movies1 be C:\MoviesB and that would work if I could specify two folders into one.. if ya know that I mean? Any idea on that?