Well my faithful modded xbox died last week and Ive been wanting to replace it with something anyways. I am a college student and not exactly made of money so the cheapest options would be best.
Currently I have these spare parts lying around.
Athlon K7 1GHz old
Athlon XP 2100+ tbred core
Epox Nforce 2 Board
Gateway socket 462 board sdram slots
2x128 Megs of DDR 400
256 Megs Sdram Pc133
300watt PSU
Homemade HTPC case
40gig harddrive
DVD rom
CDRW
2 Nic Cards
MSI tv tuner card
RIVA TNT agp graphics card with svid out.
Yeah i know its a sad lineup, but its all i have, and probably all i can afford.
I have used Media Portal before and found it to be kind of slow and unstable. Also i have alot of video files in bin cue files that to my knowledge cannot be opened in media portal.
So here is what i need to know. Is the hardware i have going to be hopeless, or do you think there is a chance that i can a working HTPC setup out of that?
I am almost wondering if just replacing my xbox would be a better deal. The xbox never gave me a single issue and seems to play every file i can throw at it, the only draw back was the absence of a tvtuner card.
Currently I have these spare parts lying around.
Athlon K7 1GHz old
Athlon XP 2100+ tbred core
Epox Nforce 2 Board
Gateway socket 462 board sdram slots
2x128 Megs of DDR 400
256 Megs Sdram Pc133
300watt PSU
Homemade HTPC case
40gig harddrive
DVD rom
CDRW
2 Nic Cards
MSI tv tuner card
RIVA TNT agp graphics card with svid out.
Yeah i know its a sad lineup, but its all i have, and probably all i can afford.
I have used Media Portal before and found it to be kind of slow and unstable. Also i have alot of video files in bin cue files that to my knowledge cannot be opened in media portal.
So here is what i need to know. Is the hardware i have going to be hopeless, or do you think there is a chance that i can a working HTPC setup out of that?
I am almost wondering if just replacing my xbox would be a better deal. The xbox never gave me a single issue and seems to play every file i can throw at it, the only draw back was the absence of a tvtuner card.