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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    Thanks for the suggestion, but too big and too much money. Looking for something Mac Mini style. Like I said, if the Mac Mini could decode 1080p x264 I'd just buy that. Did you see my post regarding ripping your CD collection?
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    I need a Micro ATX board. I'm thinking about this: $159 - SILVERSTONE Grandia GD02B Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case $75 - ASUS P5L-VM 1394 LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $169 - 3.00ghz Dual-Core Intel E8400 45nm Core 2 Duo CPU $40 - 2gb DDR2-800mhz RAM (2x1gb) $65 -...
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    Ye ol' "ripping my CD collection" thread

    I've been in your situation and I've done this before. I suggest the following approach: 1. Rip everything to an external hard drive (perferably a 2.5" laptop drive since it is more shock resistant than a 3.5". I've lost my whole library once dropping a 3.5") 2. Rip to a lossless format...
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    Zaap, thanks for the Asus P5K-VM suggestion.
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    Exactly. Does anyone know of a motherboard running OS X with SPDIF working?
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    "This" shows the motherboard has an spdif pin header on it. Has anyone used this successfully with any device?
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    $119 ZOTAC ZT-88TES3P-FCP GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Has a 2 pin spdif input that gets audio onto the HDMI. What do you think?
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    Looking at putting together a HTPC. The trick would seem to be getting a video card that can put audio out the HDMI. I'm looking at something like this: $59 - GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $120 - 2.53ghz Dual-Core Intel E7200 45nm Core 2 Duo CPU...
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    $400 Hackintosh rig with 10.5.4

    $27 - 256mb Zotac Fanless 7300GT 16x PCI Express Video Card - is no longer available on newegg.com Time for a September 2008 edition? ;) Also, is there any reason you didn't go with a drive like the: Pioneer Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R...