Sunday, January 18, 2009
New HTPC
I am working on creating a new home theater PC. The plan is for this to replace the home theater PC which is been working well for the last three years in my media room. Currently however I am only able to record one HDTV signal at a time. The idea is by upgrading to Windows 7, I should be able to record hopefully four streams at a time in HDTV and four streams at a time in standard definition.
I plan this time is to use a home theater case which actually fits in with the other devices in my media room. I'm also planning on attempting to use the new CPUs from Intel. I will be attempting to blog here regarding what different hardware choices that I have made and also the effects of installing these things.
In addition my plan is to take my old home theater PC converted to Linux and put Xbox media Center on it so that I can use that to play movies.
Motherboard. Intel X58 Extreme DX58SO $272
Other Motherboard MSI X58 Eclipse $300 this one has very poor reviews on new egg
another motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe $284 this one has very good reviews on new egg
only 3 memory slots, need more,
CPU Core i7 920 $230
RAM DDR3 2GB $49
HTPC Cases
I plan this time is to use a home theater case which actually fits in with the other devices in my media room. I'm also planning on attempting to use the new CPUs from Intel. I will be attempting to blog here regarding what different hardware choices that I have made and also the effects of installing these things.
In addition my plan is to take my old home theater PC converted to Linux and put Xbox media Center on it so that I can use that to play movies.
Motherboard. Intel X58 Extreme DX58SO $272
Other Motherboard MSI X58 Eclipse $300 this one has very poor reviews on new egg
another motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe $284 this one has very good reviews on new egg
only 3 memory slots, need more,
CPU Core i7 920 $230
RAM DDR3 2GB $49
HTPC Cases
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