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Hi all, going from no rig/old K6, to now having two new rigs! i have one A64 setup running as my main rig which i wanna give high storage capacity and generally use day to day for everything, i have it built into my lovely CM stacker (yum yum what a case).
Thing is i now have an LGA775 single core setup. Im thinking that it'd make a great media centre, networked through to my main 'big-rig' with a small SATA and windows MCE (i can get from suppliers as im an IT sole trader). My problem is that is it really worth me running it in this way when i could probs run a long S-Video from my main rig. Effectively im asking for an appraisal of MCE but also any problems i might have using it to stream xvid's and divX's from another location to put on the telly. Cant think what else i could use it for TBH i already have a 1.5ghz pentium rig working as a retro arcade so i might actually have too many comps now lol, and no im not doing SETI!
EDIT: oh and a plus for MCE would be that i have a 360 therefore can link the two although i dont see any major benefit except music streaming as both the MCE PC and 360 would be on the same telly
Thing is i now have an LGA775 single core setup. Im thinking that it'd make a great media centre, networked through to my main 'big-rig' with a small SATA and windows MCE (i can get from suppliers as im an IT sole trader). My problem is that is it really worth me running it in this way when i could probs run a long S-Video from my main rig. Effectively im asking for an appraisal of MCE but also any problems i might have using it to stream xvid's and divX's from another location to put on the telly. Cant think what else i could use it for TBH i already have a 1.5ghz pentium rig working as a retro arcade so i might actually have too many comps now lol, and no im not doing SETI!
EDIT: oh and a plus for MCE would be that i have a 360 therefore can link the two although i dont see any major benefit except music streaming as both the MCE PC and 360 would be on the same telly