View Single Post
Old Dec 10, 2007 | 02:12 PM
  #1  
Fil's Avatar
Fil
ELASTIC BAND
20 Year Member
Liked
Loved
Community Favorite
 
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 14,219
Likes: 98
From: rainham, essex
Default Media centre build

1st off any good sites for more info?

what i want from it at the mo, internet radio, mame?,
freeview and analouge ( the second so i can record off my cable box )
allready have a hauppauge 1300 card in my every day pc, so will rob that.

4 hdds probably all 120gbs , as i have a few allready

1. operating sytem ( tho no idea what to go for ? )
2. mp3s.
3. mame
4. recordings off tv

needs to have a digital audio out for my amp and svhs or scart for TV.


now i hope ive got the right specs for mother board and chip, because i want it to in the future to run a hd player and blue ray player HD sat card, which would mean a hdmi graphix card?

motherboard asus P5K-E http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129126
processor Intel Core2Duo E4500 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130486

looking for 2 x1 gb ram, what fits this board?
a graphics card with a svhs output?
A case to stick it all in, anygood? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=005

powersupply, something quite?


err im i going along the right line?
Reply