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12-20-2005, 05:59 PM
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Spec your Dream HTPC / PVR PC!
I'm finally ready to take the plunge to build a "do it all" PVR / HTPC for HD and TV recording as well as serve up very high quality upconverted Video (ATI 1800XL or nVidia 7800, etc.) via a file server with ripped DVD's and Jpeg Photo's.
I'm probably NOT going to locate the box by my large RPTV, but instead, locate it in my nearby audio closet, so a pure, HTPC case is not a requirement. If you were me and your budget was $1,500-2,000 bucks, what would you spec and why? THanks! bradesp 
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12-22-2005, 09:27 AM
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Holy F* Batman....
You are opening yourself up for a lot of options... If it were me.... Athlon X2 dual core Nvidia Nforce4 chipset by a major brand (I like MSI) 2 gig DDR400 Ram A huge amount of storage in Raid 5 (the more the better) Geforce 7800 GTX or SLI if a heavy gamer I mean, really it all depends on what you want to spend your money on. I myself don't do a lot of gaming so anything above a geforce 6600gt is lost on me. If I were to spend 1500 on a sage server, it would all go into the proc/ram/hard drive pretty much. You have to decide what you want to do with it. I have always been an AMD fan and have become an Nvidia fan as of late so I am biased dangit!
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12-22-2005, 09:47 AM
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if you are going to encode the video to fit more on (I have 1200+ movies and 1000s of episodes encoded to mpeg-4 on my sage server) Then I would definitely spend the money on CPU/Ram. But if you are not encoding that much and it is just a server that won't be used to view stuff on, then I would spend most of it on storage. A good raid-5 card (Mine is a 3ware 9500S-8).
A good video card/CPU/Ram will do very little for a dedicated server. All it does is transfer the captured video from Hardware encoder to disk drive and fetch it from client via Lan. No real CPU intensive stuff there. but now 4x500GB Sata in a raid-5 Array...  To sum it up, what "exactly" do you want this machine to do?
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12-22-2005, 10:23 AM
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-Eric Client: STX-HD100 Extender, Connected to 47" Visio 1080p LCD via HDMI, Running SageMC Client: Media MVP Running SageMC Server: Antec SLK3800B, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, Biostar TForce 550, GeForce 7300LE, 1GB DDR2 800, 2 x HVR-1600, PVR-150MCE, 1.4TB HD Space, XP Pro, Java6, Latest SageTV Version
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12-23-2005, 05:05 PM
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