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Anyone see any conflicts with this build?
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4SUREMAN
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19. June 2009 @ 19:54 |
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jony218
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19. June 2009 @ 21:23 |
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If your buliding a mediapc, the part's you have will easily handle or exceed your requirements.
When I built mine, I got a motherboard (Foxconn Core 2 Quad/ Intel G31/ DDR2/ A&V&GbE/ ATX G31AXK) that had the most PCI slots available (5 slots). A single tv tuner card will eventually limit what you can do with cable tv (I have 4 PVR150 tuner cards installed, planning on adding 1 more). I can record 4 different channels at one time.
Your power supply is "overkill" unless you have a power hungry video card. I have a 450 watt PS and it has no problem powering my 4x tuners/4x hard drives/intel e2140 dualcore cpu. It runs 24/7 with no problems.
Make sure you have TV tuner card that has the built-in hardware encoders (the tuner cards will do all the video compressing not cpu), that will allow you to record tv programs in the background and watch dvd movies or listen to your music at the same time.
I would get a larger hard drive at least 1 TB, better yet have a boot drive and a video storage drive. Make sure the video drive is formatted NTFS 64kb sectors. That will give smoother playback of videos.
What you have is a start, a mediapc is a work in progress. I'm always adding more parts (tuner cards/hard drives). I'm still using windows xp pro/2gb ram it gets the job done for me.
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4SUREMAN
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19. June 2009 @ 22:45 |
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perfeect a reply from someone that has traveled the path I take. i have a 250 maxtor sata that I will transfer over to the new pc and then format it and probably use it as the primary running Ubuntu. i'll transfer all the data off of it first though to the 500gb. I've heard it is a very stable platform. sick of windows headaches. its hard to gauge when others tell you that the psu is to small. cool you can record 4 programs at once. that means i get to save a little dough thanks.
one dude was telling me that.
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AM3 mobo's use DDR3, AM2 mobo's use DDR2. AMD was nice to its customers and put a DDR2 controller in its new P2 chips, that doesn't make the mobos AM3 though. there is some real marketing BS going on right now where mobo companies are taking the boards they have had on the market for over a year and trying to say its all of a sudden an "AM3" board, simply because Phenom 2 chips will work on it.
not sure if I want to go intel just because amd is cheap and quality is good. so far i read anyways.
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4SUREMAN
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19. June 2009 @ 23:08 |
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jony218 how much memory do you have and what os?
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4SUREMAN
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19. June 2009 @ 23:51 |
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i don't know why i just didnt download the pdf manual to begin with for this mobo. the requirement for the psu have to be above 500w. thanks for giving me the idea.
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jony218
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20. June 2009 @ 13:36 |
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For memory I have ddr2-800 2gb on my current mediapc, that's all you need. On my older mediapc's I've ran it with as low as 512 mb of ram.
I've used amd cpu's in my previous mediapc's (amd 2000 single core and semprom 2800 single cores) with no problems. I only went with the intel on this mediapc because I couldn't find an amd motherboard with 5 PCI slots. The motherboard cost me $58.00 the cpu another $60.00. For cable tv you don't need expensive tuners, you can find the pvr150 (built-in hardware encoders) for under $50.00 on the internet.
Windows xp pro is very stable for a mediapc, on my system it runs 24/7 for 4 or 5 months non-stop, I only shutdown for upgrading parts or clean the case. You just need to have good media software I use sagetv, it cost $80.00 which is a one-time fee and I've been using the same software for 3 years it has an excellent tv-guide where you choose what to record.
You only need a large power supply if you have a powerful cpu or top of the line video card. A 65 watt cpu will easily work with a 400 watt supply. I also have a seperate PC an amd phenom am2 quad 9750 95 watt/ 4 x hard drives integrated graphics and it's running on a 400 watt power supply.
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4SUREMAN
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20. June 2009 @ 18:44 |
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21. June 2009 @ 16:29 |
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Motherboard: 8/10 - Not a bad board.
CPU: 9/10 - one of AMD's best CPUs
RAM: 4/10 - Crucial PC8500 RAM is often unreliable.
PSU: 2/10 - Cheap OEM PSUs are bad. Buy this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008
Case: 3/10 - Poorly made and poorly cooled, but you get what you pay for
HDD: 5/10 - The cheapest option and also the least reliable. Once again, you get what you pay for
TV Card: - I hear good things about Happauge but since TV cards are so rare, I can't give it a rating
Sound card: Why a low-profile sound card with a full size case? It won't fit properly for a start, and secondly, why not just use onboard audio? Unless you're a gamer (onboard graphics, so you won't be) there's no real reason to buy a sound card unless you're a real audophile
OS: Vista's fine enough, but you may be able to get a trial of windows 7 for a year or so for free, which is a much better OS
KB/M: 5/10 - Logitech make good peripherals, but RF is a very poor wireless standard, very prone to interference
Why such a terrible motherboard for the Intel build?
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4SUREMAN
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21. June 2009 @ 21:48 |
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22. June 2009 @ 06:52 |
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PSU: 1/10 - Rosewill PSUs are absolutely damn terrible.
Buy this instead: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008
RAM: 9/10 - G-Skill is good memory
HDD: 7/10 - Samsung F2 drives are as yet unproven, but so far receiving excellent reviews. Be advised they're designed for quietness, not high performance
KBM: 3/10 - It's still RF, and it's now a worse brand than before. Stick with Logitech really.
Case: 5/10 - Better coolig, still bottom of the barrel build and design quality though.
MoBo: 1/10 - ECS are absolutely god awful. AVoid like the plague,.
The PSU you changed to, the Antec is much better, in the past I would have given 10/10. The newer version sadly is not quite as awesome as the old one, but it's still a decent unit. Go with either that or the 400W Corsair I posted, either will do fine.
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4SUREMAN
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22. June 2009 @ 10:17 |
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22. June 2009 @ 13:20 |
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Much better.
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