HTPC Spec help

Soldato
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Right,

I'm trying to sort out speccing out a Home Theater PC, and in honesty, I cant work out what I need... ideally I want to be able to put 2 dual tuner TV cards in the machine and therefore have the capability to record up to 3 channels and watch 1 other at the same time (Freeview) (and I don't know if this is technically possible, so please correct me )

Sound wise, I want to hook it up to an amp with a 5.1 setup (not yet bought, will post on the av section shortly!) so ideally an onboard soundcard that has optical out id imagine is what I need?

please spec it up that I need everything that goes in the case, including the case... I want it to be silent really.... ideally small, powerful enough to play back HD content when I get it, and probably 300 ish gig storage......

Budget wise, as cheap as possible really... willing to go AMD or Intel
 
cheers for the replies guys...

can anyone suggest one of the intel MATX boards please?

Ideally I wanted one with 3 PCI and 1 PCI Express.. but I dont think MATX have that many ports :(
 
ok, think ive got what I need now !

Mobo - MSI 945GZM3-L mATX
CPU - Intel P4 630 3ghz
Ram - 2 Gig Corsair DDR 667mhz
HDD - WD 320gb
DVDRW - Liteon 16x
Case - Antec Fusion Media Center Case with 430wPSU
GFX - MSI 7600GS 256 MB (passive cooled)
TV Card - Hauppage Wintv Nova-T 500
OS - MS Vista Home Premium OEM 32bit
Extra's - MS Media Centre Remote

Comes to 606.88 inc postage ..... seem reasonable?
 
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