Re: Want to build a pc for Windows MCE

From: Dana Cline - MVP (dcline_at_scriptpro.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:24:59 -0600

I built a system last May for <$1,000 US - dunno how much Canadian that is
these days.

Motherboard - MSI K8T Neo has 6 USB ports, plus FireWire, SATA, IDE. Added a
gig of RAM as 2 512M sticks. Using an AMD Athlon 64-3000. I avoided
motherboard graphics as it's a bit difficult to upgrade them <g>. Instead, I
later got an nVidia 5200 video board for $55 at NewEgg. I went with the
Hauppauge 250MCE tuner, but the new 150 is only $65 at Amazon.

Had the DVD burner moved from another system, and added a pair of existing
IDE disks - 30Gb for C and 80Gb for D. Both are 7200 rpm, 8Mb cache. Will
eventually throw on a 250Gb SATA but don't need it for now.

Everything works well together and I was able to upgrade from 2002 to 2004
to SP2 to 2005 with absolute minimum of hassles.

Dana Cline - MVP

"Vitulla" <Vitulla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:129b01c51004$a2bb88c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey,
> I would just liek to know a good but cheap setup to run
> MCE nicely. If it could be under 1000$ CDN taht would be
> great. Thanks for any suggestions

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