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Posted by RCE Defiant on 03/18/07 21:01
"Ant C" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:12vr4k7e92tq04b@corp.supernews.com...
>>>
>>> Like RCE i'm looking to upgrade amy setup and like the look of this Kiss
>>> 1600. Do you know what hardrive is in this?.
>>>
>>> Anyone else have one of these?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've been working on this project for a bit now and have decided to build
>> my own HTPC.
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>> This is the build list and cost, I'm getting all my stuff from scan.co.uk
>> as I live 5 minutes away.
>>
>> CPU AMD 64 3800 AM2 (comes with a fan/heatsink) 69.31
>> Case NSK2400 (comes with PSU) 68.14
>> Mobo Abit NF-M2 nView (7.1 sound on board, onboard gfx, dual head) 58.22
>> Memory 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400 45.46
>> HDD 500GB SATA II/300 82.96
>> MS MCE Remote 19.73
>> DVD Reader (got a spare one) 0
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>> 343.82
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>> --
>> RCE Defiant
>
>
> You've perhaps just changed my thoughts on this route by the case you've
> chosen. I could live with something like that downstairs, actually looks
> v
> good. Fan noise would be my concern??.
> Are you simply going to copy movies wirelessly onto it from your other PC
> or
> are you going to do more with it, i.e. recording etc?. Have you
> considered the idea of a Raid 1 config?.
>
>
>
You mean RAID 0? I'm going to expand the drive capacity over time with
other 500+ drives but want to pace myself with that so I don't feel the
financial pain so much. If your concerned about fan noise, and I am, I'm
plan B'ing the fan with one of these if it's too loud with the one that
comes with the chip
http://www.awd-it.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1409. Recommended as
it defo fits in the case I'm going with. I've got a wired network from up
to downstairs as until the N spec is sorted I'm not pissing about with
wireless streaming as it's not up to it. With a wire and gigabit channels
at both ends I'll be able to chuck stuff down to the HTPC from my main box
upstairs no probs and also store stuff locally on the 500GB disk I'm buying.
My main driver for this is I want to get all my DVD's ripped down to disk
and also play my tunes downstairs pain-free. I'm not planning to do any PVR
as I've got SkyHD. It'll be nice to play my downloaded TV shows on my
Pioneer 436SXE instead of watching them all on my PC monitor.
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RCE Defiant
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