Plix Q Perl

[xTABx7]

How does this thing look for the price to you guys?

http://www.ricavisionplix.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PLIXQPERL&Show=ExtInfo

Think you could build somthing comparable to this for the same price off newegg?

THE vid card is a 6600 i believe

I just finished putting my htpc together from some scraps i had laying around. But for my parents this looks pretty simple.

EDIT: SOME PCIS OF THE BACK
http://www.mediacenteroem.com/pages/drivers/Plixq/Documents/Manual/initial.pdf

 

[CrimandEvil]

The video card is one of Intel's IGP, check the specs cause they say over and over that it's onboard. Intel's MCE compatible IGP isn't that great, it's just barely able of running MCE and it's multimedia features (and video quality) are non-existent. What I find interesting is that they make no mention of what the tuner is so it's quality is totally unknown.

I can do better.

Case and PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129014
Memory x2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145025
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152025
Mobo : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130529
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535
CPU Cooler: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118112
MCE: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832102357
Remote: http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...trol-for-windows-xp-mce/cName/remote-controls
Tuner: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127987
OR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815117802R
OR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815117801R
OR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815117603R
OR
http://store.nvidia.com/product.aspx?sku=2768081&culture=en-US

It all depends on what you want, you can mix and match and choice some cheaper parts (for one thing I wouldn't totally shop at Newegg due to their crappy shipping prices.

For example next weekend I'm going to be ordering some stuff for a new system:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813153005
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103007
MCE (and remote) and the NV tuner listed above (if the Turion doesn't work then I'll get a s754 3200+ or something). I might throw them all (not the tuner) into one of these cases:
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...-home-theater-pc-case-silver/cName/htpc-cases
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...-home-theater-pc-case-silver/cName/htpc-cases
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...scala-sstlc19-black-sstlc19b/cName/htpc-cases

I do have the Antec case linked above but my little brother is stealing it when he goes back to College, the Antec case is pretty awesome so I might pick one up instead and get a seperate VFD for it.

 

[xTABx7]

ok thanks for you help man, their sight is a little misleading because that model is actually listed on the Nvidia site for using their products. I should just not be lazy and build it. The internal IR for the remote is nice though I want to reproduce that.

 

[SJetski71]

The internal IR for the remote is nice though I want to reproduce that.

You could use this to incorporate an IR remote and IR keyboard: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1028939873&postcount=11

It's an inexpensive option at least

 

[xTABx7]

yeah that could work as well

 

[CrimandEvil]

http://www.htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22900&hl=
For the remote would get that, putting the standard MCE receiver into a case can get alittle messy with all that extra wires from it.

 

[xTABx7]

that looks perfect, can you recommend a all in one card reader that would fit into one of the 5.25 bays of that antec case?

 

[CrimandEvil]

Something like one of these?
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...-20-card-reader-silver/cName/case-accessories
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...-wusb-1394-audio-ports/cName/case-accessories
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...-20-card-reader-cr101a/cName/case-accessories