spec me a £450 HTPC

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Max budget £450, must include monitor (15" is ok), sleek tower/sff case, tv tuner/freeview tuner, 5.1 output in good quality sound. Not needed is a keyboard and mouse, operating system and cables (I also have a 480w psu for an atx case and 1gb pc3200). Oh and one more thing it must be very quiet....think you can do it? :cool:
 
MO-017-BQ BenQ FP51G 15" LCD Monitor (MO-017-BQ)
£94.95 £94.95
CA-020-SV Silverstone Temjin TJ08 - Black (No PSU) (CA-020-SV)
£60.95 £60.95
MY-041-CS Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS2.5 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400) (MY-041-CS)
£62.95 £62.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£79.95 £79.95
MB-119-AS Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS)
£46.95 £46.95
GX-025-HA Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100 Freeview TV Tuner (GX-025-HA)
£42.95 £42.95
SC-000-MA M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PCI Sound Card (SC-000-MA)
£40.00 £40.00
Subtotal £428.70
VAT £75.03
Total £503.73

No HD. Similar to my HTPC, you'll want to get the fastest CPU, if you're going to scale easily looking at 60-85% CPU usage with Mpeg-IV, blips upto 100% for Mpeg-II scaling.
 
OcUK Value Hanns-G HC174D 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-018-OK)
£89.95 £89.95
CA-008-AS OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS)
£51.60 £51.60
CP-117-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3000BPBOX) (CP-117-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-119-AS Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS)
£46.95 £46.95
GX-041-LT Leadtek WinFast PVR2000-MPEG2 TV/Decoder Card - Retail (GX-041-LT)
£63.95 £63.95
CD-002-SA Samsung SH-D162 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-002-SA)
£11.50 £11.50
HD-051-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£29.50 £29.50

Subtotal £353.40
VAT £61.85

Total £415.25
 
as the above post, im going to be using ffd show to upscale the picture, that uses a lot of cpu I know but on my 3ghz opteron I get 50% usage to upscale to 1024x768 (for my projector), I thought that a 3000+ would be enough? also what Tv card? the leadtek pvr2000 looks better than hvr1100, but they all work with MCE yes? *edit ive just checked and they dont say mce certified so the pvr500 looks a better bet.

Also harddrive space, if I record a couple hours a day how soon will I fill a 80gb hdd?

Also squiffy, theres no hdd on your list and I said that I didnt need ram;)
 
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MO-018-OK OcUK Value Hanns-G HC174D 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-018-OK)
£89.95 £89.95
CA-008-AS OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS)
£51.60 £51.60
CP-117-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3000BPBOX) (CP-117-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-119-AS Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS)
£46.95 £46.95
CD-002-SA Samsung SH-D162 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-002-SA)
£11.50 £11.50
HD-051-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£29.50 £29.50
GX-028-HA Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500 Media Centre Edition Dual TV Tuner (GX-028-HA)
£94.95 £94.95

Subtotal £384.40

VAT £67.27
Total £451.67
 
nO}{8 said:
Also harddrive space, if I record a couple hours a day how soon will I fill a 80gb hdd?
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Looking at 350MB per 45 minute episode for decent video & sound quality compressed Divx, so roughly 8-9GB per season (22-24 episodes per season)
 
nO}{8 said:
If I have a tv card will I need a dedicated graphics card as well?
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Yes. That Asus CSM motherboard has built in 6150 Nvidia graphics, fine for Windows and does have some video acceleration.
 
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