I’ve been constantly reading your guys website and it is just filled with great information on building a HTPC. There is much more to it than I could have ever imagined. I’ve built plenty of PC’s before but never a HTPC which doesnt appear to be too different other than a few cards.
So far this is what I’m going to attempt to put together. Not too set on a case yet but this is what I’ve chosen at this point. I’m looking to build a HTPC thats under 800$ roughly. Not really looking for the BD yet, that will be a future upgrade, waiting for BD to really take off before I make that small investment. I will be using it for playing DVD’s, listening to music, recording TV (hopefully HD channels), surfing the net occasionally. All the basics pretty much wont be doing anything special yet. I also have a NAS system set up with music and enough space to stream/save movies.
Video Card – ATI All in Wonder 3650
HD – SeaGate 1t 16mb cache
Case – Thermal Take Bach Media Lab ATX
network – Dlink PCI wireless card
Keyboard/remote – DiNovo Mini from logitech
I havent decided on a motherboard processor yet, i’m looking at getting a phenom processor and atleast 2-4 gig of memory. I will be using Vista Ultimate MC. Any suggestions? Im’ still learning about the cable hook up so as of now I was going to split my cable to have one going to my cable box and one going to the HTPC since I will only be able to view certain HD channels from my understanding. Thanks for your help.
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