Recent content by lrmat

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    AOpen XC Cube MZ855-II: Socket 478 or 479?

    i too am interested in the answer to this question. i'm looking into building a htpc with the AOpen XC Cube MZ915-M.
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    plannig on building a small htpc

    thanks, OrSin, i was starting to feel neglected.
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    plannig on building a small htpc

    any takers? no one?
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    planning on building a small htpc

    any takers? no one?
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    plannig on building a small htpc

    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...
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    planning on building a small htpc

    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...
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    THE ATI is a hardware encoder. what about a case?
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    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.
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    oh, by the way i have a thermaltake purepower 480w psu as well. once again, what should i do? go sff? case? mobo? cpu? how cheap?
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    logitech mx1000 and firefox

    you have to make those buttons generic buttons for them to work with firefox.
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    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.
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    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.
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    WOOHOOO!!!! Upgraded to 5mbps

    mine now runs at 8mbps.
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    Zalman CNPS7000A and Athlon 64

    inused the stock plate on my zalman 7700, no problems.
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    Is there a reason NOT to buy Maxtor 300GB 16MB drive?

    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.