Peter3hg
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My PVR is starting to become a pain in the arse, and I have most of the components of a PC lying redundant. Therefore I am seriously considering building an HTPC.
Parts I already have are:
C2D E4300
2GB Ram (probably only use 1GB of it)
Bits I will buy are:
Antec Micro Fusion Veris Case (comes with silent 350W PSU)
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard
320GB HDD
Hauppauge Nova 500TD dual tuner
The cost all together, will be about the same as a new PVR.
Does anybody have any opinions on the bits I have chosen, especially the case?
The other thing I am undecided upon is whether to run it on WIndows 7 using the Media Centre, or put a dedicated PVR style system on, such as MythTV running on a Linux distro. Does anybody have experience with MythTV?
Parts I already have are:
C2D E4300
2GB Ram (probably only use 1GB of it)
Bits I will buy are:
Antec Micro Fusion Veris Case (comes with silent 350W PSU)
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard
320GB HDD
Hauppauge Nova 500TD dual tuner
The cost all together, will be about the same as a new PVR.
Does anybody have any opinions on the bits I have chosen, especially the case?
The other thing I am undecided upon is whether to run it on WIndows 7 using the Media Centre, or put a dedicated PVR style system on, such as MythTV running on a Linux distro. Does anybody have experience with MythTV?