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RE: Building a home theater PC on the cheap. Need advice.

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In Reply to: RE: Building a home theater PC on the cheap. Need advice. posted by blue_z on November 20, 2010 at 13:26:51

Hi.

Thanks for the info. The PC has 3 regular PCI slots & an AGP slot. I do have a good PCI dual monitor video card that I'm currently using on another PC through my TV with good results, so I can pop it in the HTPC.

Onboard drive headers are IDE. I suppose I could pop in a SATA PCI card.

At this point, I'm thinking maybe I should just go buy a new dual core mobo & CPU & upgrade the thing.

Cheers,
Bobbo :-)

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Use a WDTV Live to handle the playback? - bassbinotoko 02:11:55 12/04/10 (0)
Use the PC for capturing and serving, but watch using a WDTV Live? This won't give you the PVR convenience, but if you mostly want it for time-shifting, it should work. This allows keeping the noisy computer in another room, and then you just need the tiny (and fanless) WDTV near the display. (Or instead of the WDTV Live, one of the various other 1080p media players: go to the Amazon listing for the WDTV Live and you'll find links to a slew of competitors.)

Edits: 12/04/10

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