Cheap, silent client PC for HD use

[Mahoney]

Hi all,

I have a difficult requirement. I'm fed up of buying PC components and sticking them together. And believe me, so is my wife...

I want a small form factor, silent PC for use as a SageTV client. It needs to produce excellent picture quality with everything from PAL 576i up to 1080p. It'll be feeding into a 1920x1080p@50 monitor over HDMI.

I'm guessing that means it needs an nVidia 7x00 or an ATI X1x00 card in it.

I really do not want to have to do any mucking around with decoders. I'm fed up to the back teeth with playing with them! I want to leave Sage on "default" for everything and for it to look good.

I'm basically looking for something as simple as the MVP - plug it in, install SageTV Client and go.

Anyone heard of anything?