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Building a media PC?

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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 01:35 PM
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Default Building a media PC?

I don't have alot of room so want to replace my laptop, stereo, TV, DVD player with a PC and LCD TV

I also fancy building it myself

I've no experience but it can't be that hard???

What do I need?

Case
PSU
Motherboard + Processor
Graphics card
Sound card
Hard drive
TV tuner
WLAN card
DVD/RW drive
DVD drive
Cooling fan
Cordless keyboard/mouse

Anything else? Any good places to buy the parts?

Any particulary reccommended parts, don't need state of the art.

Cheers
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 01:53 PM
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M8, check out the pc spec's post, and then look at www.ebuyer.com

All you need, is a good motherboard + processor combo (i'd go amd personally) a very good graphics card (check www.overclockers.co.uk for their nvidia range)
A lot of ram
Good hard drive space, I'd go for 1 smallish one for windows to run on, and 1 large one for storage.
5.1 at the smallest sound card with speakers

Pioneer 109 dvd burner

Get a cpu cooler desinged for a bigger cou then you have. I have an AMD XP 3200 64+ cpu with a XP 3400 fan on it
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