Media PC Spec

lolwtfbbq · 10 Mar 2006 at 07:36

Is this good for a Media PC

Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS) £64.57

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3500BPBOX) (CP-119-AM) £140.94

OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS) £70.44

Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS) £56.34

Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT DVB-T TV Tuner (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-000-TT) £93.94

NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE) £29.32

Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.45m) - Black (CB-004-GE) £3.47

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB 1200JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-055-WD) £51.64 x2

OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK) £6.99

Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Blue (CB-046-GE) £2.29

Antec NeoHE 430W Modular ATX2.0 PSU (CA-044-AN) £64.57

Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK) £10.52

Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM (SW-008-MS) £78.67

Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Remote Controller (SW-009-MS) £23.44

Vantec Cable Sleeving Kit - Blue (CA-002-VA) £5.82

Microsoft Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition - Retail (KB-053-MS) £64.57

Linksys WUSB54G Wireless-G USB Network Adapter (NW-013-LS) £28.14

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X300SE 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (RX300SE) (GX-021-HT) £35.19

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lolwtfbbq · 10 Mar 2006 at 18:27

Ok i might do it in RAID 1 and go for the 3700+.I chose the Modular psu cause i can remove all the unused cables

lolwtfbbq · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:33

ajgoodfellow said:
OK cool

Just in case you didn't know - RAID 1 will mirror your drives so with two 120GB drives you'll have 120GB of storage. If either drive fails though you won't loose your data - you won't get a speed boost though

RAID 0 stripes the drives. This will give you a speed boost and 240GB of space. If either drive fails though you'll loose all of your data

thaks for telling me

lolwtfbbq · 21 Mar 2006 at 19:39

Here we go with a Amd 64 3700+ oem

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Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS) £64.57

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-150-AM) £140.94

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) £15.22

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC) £6.46

OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS) £70.44

Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS) £56.34

Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT DVB-T TV Tuner (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-000-TT) £93.94

NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE) £29.32

Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.45m) - Black (CB-004-GE) £3.47

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB 1200JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-055-WD) £51.64 x2

OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK) £6.99

Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Blue (CB-046-GE) £2.29

Antec NeoHE 430W Modular ATX2.0 PSU (CA-044-AN) £64.57

Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK) £10.52

Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM (SW-008-MS) £78.67

Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Remote Controller (SW-009-MS) £23.44

Vantec Cable Sleeving Kit - Blue (CA-002-VA) £5.82

Microsoft Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition - Retail (KB-053-MS) £64.57

Linksys WUSB54G Wireless-G USB Network Adapter (NW-013-LS) £28.14