HTPC for HD - fill in the spec gaps

Man of Honour
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Will be housing six hard drives (which I already have), not bothered about capability for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD but a bonus if that's covered. Will be solely for media purposes and connected to two displays. Obviously I want it to play all the media content that's around at the moment (H264 and the like).

So far:

Silverstone Lascala SST-LC17 HTPC Case (Black)
Tagan TG500-U25 500W ATX2.0 Dual Engine
Corsair 1GB DDR2 Value Select PC5300 Dual Channel Kit
Windows XP Home OEM
Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (don't need a RW)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2)


Which leaves the graphics and motherboard, looking to spend as little as possible but have no budget set.

Have looked at the MSI K9NGM2-FID which has a 6150 chipset which seems a good option at £60

If not that then which graphics card/mobo combination will give the best bang for my buck?

Thanks
 
Glad to hear people think the MSI board will do the job as it's such a cheap option.

I have an HDA mystique for sound.
 
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