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good setup for HTPC?

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Dagatech

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I'm trying to stay cheap, but I do want quality. The below comes to $740 total, with a couple things on sale.

Antec NSK2400 (comes with PSU)
Asus M2NPV-VM (6150 chipset so onboard video)
Athlon 64 3000+ (AM2)
Corsair ValueSelect 1gb(2x512) DDR2 533
Seagate 7200.10 320gb
NEC 3550A
nVidia DualTV w/ MCE remote
Windows XP (already have)
GB-PVR

I'll be using this for a standard def tv, doing dvr work and dvd watching. no games. If i ever get to HD, i'd probably just upgrade the pc then. Does this look like a good setup? Would it be worth it to upgrade the processor?
 
For SD it's plenty fine.

I would add a small, seperate, hard drive for just the OS though. If and when you upgrade it makes it a lot easier to have the OS on it's own hard drive.

What remote?
 
hmm, thats a good point. I'll see if I can find one lying around somewhere.

I was thinking the MCE remote that comes with the DualTV tuner, but I was just looking around and saw this, which could be a good remote plus gets rid of having an external receiver. profit?
 
That should work just fine.. I use a skt 754 3000 with 512mb. ram and an ATI 9500 for vid. and mine works well so yours should be too. I second the 2 drives.. or at least 2 partitions. started with just one big drive and the first time I filled the drive up and the system crashed, I changed it quick.
 
i agree 2 HDDs and if you stream or encode an videos to divx i would suggest an x2 CPU but it looks good
 
okay, I can take the Seagate 80gb from my computer and make it the OS drive on the htpc. i probably won't be doing any encoding, and anyway even if i do I can just schedule it for overnight, i'm not worried about that.

any thoughts on the M-Play 202? experiences, good or bad?
 
mplay looks cool. if it was IR learning I wopuld so go for it. If I am spending over $40 for a remote though, I am going with one of the harmony remtoes personally.
 
IDversusEGO said:
mplay looks cool. if it was IR learning I wopuld so go for it. If I am spending over $40 for a remote though, I am going with one of the harmony remtoes personally.
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I agree that the harmony remotes are nice, but don't you have to have an IR receiver already?
 
yeah, but you can get an IR receiver for less than $20 on ebay. Easiset thing to do is buy an MCE remote receiver. most of the higher end harmony remotes have a built in code for MCE.
 
I'm actually looking at a similar system and I had a question about the graphics capablities of this board. Would it be enough to run 1080p well, or would another graphics card be needed for that?
 
Hurdler said:
I'm actually looking at a similar system and I had a question about the graphics capablities of this board. Would it be enough to run 1080p well, or would another graphics card be needed for that?
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If you're talking about just outputting to that resolution then yes it'll work like that. If you're talking about using VMR9 rendering at that resolution then no you'll want a dedicated video card. The 6150 chipset is best for 720p and 1080i output, 1080p is a bit more demanding.
 
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