Blu Ray wins!

[bogeyman]

Hercules mono.

Bah! Trust you to be stuck in the Silurian age.

I'm a CGA man myself. Nothing less than 16K static video RAM will do for my demanding applications.

Just look at those eye-popping magentas, groovy cyans and those jaggy circles.

[The Lone Gunman]

I went and built exactly the same 3 weeks ago, all wrapped up in a nice and shiny/girlfriend friendly Antec Fusion v2/430 case, 2x500Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATA II's disks, 8Gb high speed Kingston RAM, Intel quad core Q6600 and a silent set of fans (again girlfriend friendly).. complete overkill i know for a HTPC but it makes for a great gaming pc when on my own.. let me know how it goes TLG.

All in cost around £1,000, although i did shop around and visit the usual suspects:

Dabs
Aria PC
Microdirect
The Cooling Shop

<Chef in "it was cold, i was bored so I bought a new PC" mode>

I am looking at a Zalman 160XT+ box with a 7" touch screen. A 150 Raptor main drive and 2 Western Digital 500 gig secondarys. 8600 with hdmi out for graphics. Possible liquid cooled processor and graphics card.
Not sure on motherboard but want the core 2 quad core

The raptor has a viewing window (god knows why) and there is a chassis designed with a window to show it. Not sure if thats cool or kitsch.

[PAH]

Possible liquid cooled processor and graphics card.

Liquid cooling is great. Get the temperature right and you can put tropical fish in the case, which is why so many have those windows in the side. Just remember to tape up all the gaps before filling with water.