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I might be interested, depending on costs. I've been testing MCE 2005 on a test platform for a few months, but have no tuner card as yet. Based on a lot of research and discussion, my planned spec will be as follows (in case some of the items are transferrable to your BB):
1. Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-8I915P-D Pro
2. CPU - P4 3.0GHz
3. RAM - 2 x 240Pin DIMM 512MB DDR2 PC2-4200
4. HardDrive - Samsung SpinPoint P80 160GB SATA150
5. DVD Burner - LG GSA4160B
6. Case - TBC (hard one this!)
7. Video Card - TBC (prefer one without a fan)
8. TV Tuner Card - 2 x Black Gold Digital
9. MCE 2005 OS
10.MCE Remote - Microsoft Media Centre remote
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Not only did i not reply to Mark after I posted a suggested spec, but i've also made some amendments since!!! The stress of having too many forums to monitor these days....
So, Mark - in answer to your questions, the spec was based on a lot of research. However, i've refined it yet further after discovering the AOpen Pentium M motherboard - one thing I was keen to do was to remove all noise, and using a Pentium M is obviously a way to achieve this.
Moreover, you get really good performance compared to an ITX solution and get SATA and 3 PCI slots for the tuner cards.
The other benefit it that although the motherboard is a little more expensive, there's no expensive cooling kit required. Anyway, here's my current spec:
1. Motherboard - AOpen i855GMEm-LFS Socket 479
2. CPU - Pentium M 725 Socket 479 1.6GHz 2MB
3. RAM - 1 x 1GB 184pin DIMM PC2700 DDRRAM NP Unbuffered CL2.5
4. HardDrive - Samsung SpinPoint P80 160GB SATA150 SP1614C
5. DVD Burner - LG GSA4163BA
6. Case - CoolerMaster Cavalier 4 300W ATX Aluminium Silver CAV-T04-UWB
7. Video Card - GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP DVI-I VO
8. TV Tuner Card - Black Gold Digital dual pack
9. MCE 2005 OS
10.MCE Remote - Microsoft Media Centre remote
I've priced this up and reckon on £808 excluding the OS.
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