HTPC Help

Aruffell

Aruffell

Aruffell

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Looking at putting a HTPC in the bedroom.

So far i've got a 250gb SATA hard drive, AMD Athlon Xp1800, Windows XP with SP3 and a Nebula Digi-TV card.

Just wondering how much RAM i would need and what kind of motherboard and graphics card you would recommend.

We will be hooking it upto an Optoma HD65 DLP Projector (hopefully via HDMI) and will be buying a set of Logitech Z5500 speakers.

Ideally want to buy things second hand and spend little to nothing so please help and what case?

Thanks,

Andy
 
Mainly DVD, Divx, TV through tuner and maybe some high definition files and mkv.

Highest resolution that the Optoma HD65 does.

Andy
 
What would i need then?

Cheapest graphics card for starters?

What would be the cheapest (with connection to logitech z5500) sound card (brand new or second hand) audigy2?

What CPU power would i need?

480watt psu be ok?

Opteron 146 @ 2.8/3ghz be ok?
2Gb G.Skill ZX DDR3200 ok?
DFI LANParty SLI-DR board ok?

Andy
 
Phil99 said:
There's plenty of freeview recorders out there, I'd be surprised if none of the decent ones had HDMI. Obviously the HTPC route is best for a lot of people but to get just a decent case it seems you have to spend as much as a stand alone media player, let alone a system good enough for HD and finding 100% reliable software, then there's the costs of cooling to keep the system as quiet as possible.
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But i would need to find a USB enclosure to put the hard drive in wouldn't i?

Andy
 
Saying that i think i have a USB enclosure somewhere and a spare 250gb Sata drive.

How many HDMI ports has it got?

The projector (Optoma HD65 has got 1 HDMI so i want to run that media player into it and a HDMI Freeview PVR as well.

Also, Logitech Z5500's would run straight off of the box?

Andy
 
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