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Ramshackles

Ramshackles

Ramshackles

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I went with the SN68PTG6 because I tend to prefer the nvidia chipset over the intel, atleast has full support for hdcp :)

Hoping this will be able to sit in my livingroom without too much noise, how's the hardware? Will have to get a tuner card from somewhere else it seems, and the vista remote.


Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £34.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.00GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM £73.99

Pioneer BDR-202BK 4x BD-R/RE Blu-Ray Serial ATA Dual Layer DVD Writer - Black £239.99

Shuttle SN68PTG6 Deluxe Aluminium Barebones System - AMD64 (Socket AM2) £206.99

Microsoft Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition - OEM (ZV7-00007) £19.99

Samsung SpinPoint S 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD250HJ) £35.99

Sony Floppy Drive - Black £4.99
 
Nice, a lot cheaper :) didn't notice it hehe.

Regarding the AMD CPU, anyone know if the MD 5200+ sold at OC.uk is the 65watt one? The 6000+ uses double the watt, which is probably bad for heat/noise/cooling I reckon.
 
I favour LG drives myself too. Never been let down to date. But god I have to say over £200 on an optical drive... the most expensive component in your spec sheet... an optical drive... lol doesn't seem right to me. Really hope your going to use it and imidiatly otherwise I would say hold off untill you plan to use or own blueray disks :P I would wack the £200 saved onto a bigger hard drive 250gb is a little lacking for a htpc system unless you just don't plan to record or download. I would go for a 500gb minimum but specificly I would have the western digital 1tb GP hdd with the 16mb cache. think it comes in at £180ish from memory.

Btw check that there is no problem installing windows with that sATA optical I have heard that some have issues. I'm sure that if it does you can just install with another drive though.

Don't know about the 5200+ recon you will have to talk to overclockers about that one.

I would personally buy a retail cpu for the 3 year warrenty though btw. I would also not be afraid to run your cpu hot they can quite happily cope with 70c+, passing 80c may be pushing it, but it keeps the system quiet.

Just my thoughts :)
 
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