Anyone running Mini-ITX as Media Center

[Conrad11]

Hi there,

I have built quite a few media centers for friends with different specs each time.

I have been asked to build another one and was wondering if anyone uses MINI-ITX for a media center and has uses it as a PVR, just to see if it would be powerful. Also are you able to play DIVX and other compressed formats.

If you are able to do all this, could you post what you setup is.

Thanks

 

[Conrad11]

Hey man, could u spec me a media centre PC...I want to spend around £1200.00. I've built plenty of systems before but never media centre....

CHeers

I'm probably not the best guy to spec for that ammount of money. I have always spec'ed for silence and on a budget. With that kind of money, I just wouldn't know what to get.....Sorry, its best you do your own thread



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The only reason I would like to try MINI-ITX this time as you can get pretty much silence. You can get Passive PSUs (quite cheap), passive boards and then a Laptop Hard Drive which is suspended or has vibration absorbing mounts and it would actually be practically inaudible.

As all the media centers I have built have been on a budget, I thought that much be a feasible solution.

All the previous systems Ihave built have me mATX but you could still hear them and the people that wanted the media center wanted silence.

I want thinking a Kind of Spec:

Passive Mini-ITX board with integrated CPU and Graphics
Passive PSU
Any case, probably be able to mod the Antec Minuit
1GB RAM (1 Stick)
100GB Laptop Hard Drive (Plenty concidering they would not be doing much recording at all and has been plenty in the past)
1* Happage Nova-T PCI
Windows XP Home (Media Portal) or Linux and MythTV
DVD RW


The problem is, I don't know whether the Mini-ITX system will be powerful enough to have full functionality. Eg. DVD Playback, TV Playback, TV Recording, Music Playboard....etc..