Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
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Originally posted by chef View PostI 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>
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.
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Originally posted by zeitghostHercules mono.
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.
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Originally posted by chef View PostI 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>
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Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostThe LG multi blu reads and writes blu ray and reads HD.
HTPC is home theatre pc as previously stated.
HD is not necessarily dead yet as (I believe) it is quicker and may be the pc gamers platform of choice.
May revise the choice of drive if HD is dead.
Other features are graphics card with HDMI tv connection. 7.1 surround sound card and dual tv and satelite TV card allowing unit to be a PVR. Watch one record another digi recorder.
Planning v fast hard drive wit 1T of secondary storage.
Looking at approx 1500 quid dependant on spec. Mine will cost that in components.
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>Last edited by chef; 19 February 2008, 14:30. Reason: i lied, in retrospect it was around £1k not 900
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostIt works very well too. Just like its owner!
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Originally posted by PAH View PostGood job you don't work for Sony then. It would cost you more than in the shops.*
* assuming it's true that they make a loss on each unit sold.
But buying games at cost + 5% saved me LOADS, since that's where all the money is
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostVaio with a blu-ray drive...
I did!
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostHopefully Microsoft will do something quickly to put a dual player into an XBOX 360.
HTH.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostBUT - are Blu Ray still refusing to do p0rn??? Good job that bitTorrent does is fine
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