I have an old dell 4500 with a 2.4 gig Pentium, 1 gig of ram (2 x 512 one stick a crucial I added later). Two drives an 80 gig and 120 gig ide and an ati 9600xt video card. The system also has a dvd burner.
I am thinking of buying the shuttle SS56L and making a htpc to leave at work and just...
I have an old dell 4500 with a 2.4 gig Pentium, 1 gig of ram (2 x 512 one stick a crucial I added later). Two drives an 80 gig and 120 gig ide and an ati 9600xt video card. The system also has a dvd burner.
I am thinking of buying the shuttle SS56L and making a htpc to leave at work and just...
i have two hdtv's but it will probably mostly be at work. i just want to be able to record the ppv movies at my job. s-video would be fine. as i said before, i have an ati tv wonder pro card.
i plan on using a windows xp variant. i was thinking of the nec burner. yes i need a mobo but it should work with agp cause i want to keep it as cheap as possible.
i have an ati 9600xt and an ati tv wonder pro pci card already and a couple of harddrives. what else do i need and what would you recommend? should i go sff? how much ram is enough? i don't plan on playing games, just recording movies and burning them to dvd's.
i appreciate all your help.
i've always bought maxtor's and never had a drive fail on me. mind you i bought a lacie external drive tgat crapped out on me when i opened the encloser i discovered it was a western digital.
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