Re: Motherboards and MCE

There's such a wide choice.
I want to do this right without comprising performance.
Your post was really useful.
All I have at present is a Thermaltake Tenor VB2000SNS case.
Could you put a list of model numbers of each of the electronics, I will
probably follow your lead.
After the motherboard its basically down to the video and TV cards
I am in the UK and was thinking about the Black Gold Freeview cards.

Appreciate it, thanks.



"dwswager" <dwswager@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Either P4, P D or Athlon 64. Pentium M is an option, but limit
> yourself to the 533FSB versions on Asus MB with ASUS CT-479 adapter.
>
> If you go P4 either do Northwood core Socket 478 or the newer Socket
> 775 600 series. Stay away from socket 478 Prescotts and the 500 Series
> Prescott Socket 775s. Too much heat. The 600 series runs
> approximately 10 Celsius cooler both at idle and load.
>
> I don't have a bias against Athlon, but all the new Athlon motherboards
> have Northbridge coolers spinning at a gazillion RPM making all kinds
> of racket.
>
> I'm getting ready to move off my test platform to a real HTPC. I'm
> planning on either a P4 600 Series or a Pentium D. Most Likely I'll
> use either the new 945P or 955 Chipset motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte
> or Abit that have built in Dolby Digital Live encoding. (Can encode in
> real time all signals to a Dobly Digital format for output though the
> Digital port to a Signal processor or reciever). They all use the
> Realtek ALC882 Chip. Asus unfortunately uses the 882D (Home Theater
> version) while Abit and Gigabyte are using the 882M (Master Studio
> version). All have 4 port SATA RAID 5 on the ICH7R. At the moment,
> I'm planning on using the not yet released Silverstone LC-16M case.
>


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