Windows Media Center PC

[w33bo]

Just a quick question as I am configuring this system

it will have an AMD 64 3000, 3200, or 3400,

my question is, will having the WinTV-PVR-150MCE Tuner improve the performance considerably? over having 2 or regular tuners (WinTV-GO)

And also, just to make sure, it says in their description that you can only have 2 of these cards in a system but in the anandtech review of WMCE2005, it said you can have up to 3, which is correct?

 

[vailr]

Microsoft has a list somewhere of the TV tuner cards that will work inside of the WinXP-MCE2005 interface. All supported TV tuner cards must include hardware mpeg2 encoding, except for for the ATI HDTV Wonder card. If you want multiple tuners, you might consider the Hauppauge PVR-500MCE, which includes 2 tuners on one PCI card.
I'd recommend against considering the "WinTV-GO" card; it's older technology and would produce an inferior TV display. Also, it does not include a hardware mpeg2 encoder, and thus wouldn't work inside of the MCE interface.