Hello,
I just bought my first TV and am now looking at HTPC options. I was going to hold off for a while, but this combo deal on newegg seems like a hard deal to pass up. I will be using this with a 32in LN32B460 Samsung LCD. I currently don't have a DVD player except for my PS2, so I will be using this PC as a DVD player, DVR, and Blu-ray player, and temporarily as a server to back my other PC up to until I run out of space and build a real file server. (1Tb will take me a while to fill up even with TV recording.) From what I've seen, this is about the best components at this price, and I haven't seen anything cheaper that really gets close to this functionality, but I thought I'd run it past all of you. I'll be using Windows Media Center to run everything. Total is $540 shipped.
I already have a USB TV Tuner (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950q) and OS (Windows 7 Pro x64, or Vista Ultimate x86/x64)
Specs of the build from Newegg:
Antec MicroFusion Remote 350 link
Asus M4A785-M (built in ATI Radeon HD 4200) link
AMD Phenom II X3 720 link
4GB G.Skill DDR2 800 Ram 2x link
1Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 link
LG CH08LS10 Blu-Ray drive link
I just bought my first TV and am now looking at HTPC options. I was going to hold off for a while, but this combo deal on newegg seems like a hard deal to pass up. I will be using this with a 32in LN32B460 Samsung LCD. I currently don't have a DVD player except for my PS2, so I will be using this PC as a DVD player, DVR, and Blu-ray player, and temporarily as a server to back my other PC up to until I run out of space and build a real file server. (1Tb will take me a while to fill up even with TV recording.) From what I've seen, this is about the best components at this price, and I haven't seen anything cheaper that really gets close to this functionality, but I thought I'd run it past all of you. I'll be using Windows Media Center to run everything. Total is $540 shipped.
I already have a USB TV Tuner (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950q) and OS (Windows 7 Pro x64, or Vista Ultimate x86/x64)
Specs of the build from Newegg:
Antec MicroFusion Remote 350 link
Asus M4A785-M (built in ATI Radeon HD 4200) link
AMD Phenom II X3 720 link
4GB G.Skill DDR2 800 Ram 2x link
1Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 link
LG CH08LS10 Blu-Ray drive link