server / media player

passey89

passey89

passey89

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Right ive taken the plundge at last.

Gone for as cheap as possible total came to around £180 for everything.

Its designed to sit behinnd the TV on the network be a file server and media player to the TV and surround sound.

**B Grade** MSI HD 5450 1024MB GDDR5 Low Profile PCI-Express
**B Grade** Gigabyte H61M-S2PV Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
Intel Celeron G540 2.50GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
OcUK Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM

opinions?
 
Well Vista sucks doesnt it:D

So that leaves Win7 or 8 as choices I guess. im not sure how well server2008 is at playback or codec support etc.
 
stulid said:
Well Vista sucks doesnt it:D

So that leaves Win7 or 8 as choices I guess. im not sure how well server2008 is at playback or codec support etc.
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yeh i know vista was just in there as I have a licence for it.

Will have to look into server 2008 and how good it is at that will also check what licence i can get
 
Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview Debug/Checked Build 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional with Service Pack 1 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 32/64-bit (Multilanguage) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Vista Business with Service Pack 1 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Web 64-bit (English) - DreamSpark

right so which 1 should i install?
 
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