Re: building from scratch around ceton infinitv 4 card
500 – 700. You might look into this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.513520&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-513520-_-Combo
Then sell the tuner if you don’t want it and the money towards a BD drive. I’ve seen BD drives for as low as 40 bucks and some change, might as well get one and you will still be under budget. Either way I think you can get everything you need for less than 7 easily. I think the Ceton tuner has a 3gb ram min so you might as well get 2x2Gb sticks. I am running 4 tuners now and feeding 3 XBOX 360s.
AMD 620 Propus
Gigabyte 780G series board
4Gb ram
Kingston SSD for OS
2x250Gb drives in Raid 0 for Recorded TV (Only because I had a few laying around)
Silverstone LC17 Case (Overkill but I have a future plan of making this my next WHSVail) box.
An Intel NIC, onboard NICs tend to offload processing to the system and that was causing me issues.
I had a tri core 720 in the system before that worked well and I imagine you could use any of the 45watt dual core AMD processors.