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| Author: | oddessy [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Proposed Hardware Setup - Let me know what you think |
After reading through these boards for the last few hours I have come up with this system. Still Looking for a good HD Card but have not picked one yet will probably replace the Hauppauge 250 as the third Capture device. Case $84.51 Antec Overture II Piano Black Quiet Mobo $150.99 ASUS P5B-E Socket T (LGA 775) CPU $189.00 Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz Memory $109.99 GeIL 2 x 512MB SDRAM DDR2 800 DVD R/W $0.00 Laying Around Capture $139.99 Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE Capture $0.00 Laying Around Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250 Video Card $34.99 ASUS GeForce 6200 LE "Think this is a little bit on the low end but only need to hook up to a standard TV" Remote $39.95 Streamzap PC Remote USBIR2 Hard Drive $94.99 Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 16MB Total: $844.41 |
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| Author: | Mort322 [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:29 pm ] |
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Hi, I have the P5B and when I tried to install Ubuntu on it in Nov. I had to upgrade my DVD to SATA so I could install it, something about the "Intel ICH8R" IDE devices not being supported, I'm not sure if that has been fixed in R5E50 or not but check it out before you get the headaches, I might try installing R5E50 Tomorrow and see, if I do I'll post the results. l8r |
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| Author: | Mort322 [ Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:37 pm ] |
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Hmm was doing more reading and found this, I guess its fixed. http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13108&highlight=r5e50+howto Quote: Human
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 957 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to add that users of motherboards with ICH8 chipsets can boot with the Code: intelfix parameter to support this new chipset. The installer takes care of the rest. _________________ KnoppMyth R5E50 MythiC Dragon v2.0 Join the KnoppMyth Frappr! |
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| Author: | datobin1 [ Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:24 am ] |
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Looks like a very nice setup and should overclock pretty good if you wanted to. Since you only have 3 PCI slots you should take a look at the HDHomerun for HD. It can do over the air and QAM. Since it is an external device it will save you a pci slot. Also if you use one of its tuners for over the air, you can locate it in a more convenient location for cable runs. |
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| Author: | lostmyshape [ Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:28 am ] |
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from what i understand, if you're setting this box up to be knoppmyth exclusively, that spec seems like major overkill. you could probably save $150-$250 in mobo and cpu and still have no problem with HD... and from reports the geforce 6200 handles it fine, too. now, if you want to do other gaming or have fast transcoding, that system will work. i'm looking to build a complete HD system with 2 boxes: separate FE/BE and Diskless FE for ~$550 including some parts i have laying around... not saying the hardware you're looking at isn't fine, just that you probably don't have to spend as much (save for a nice HDTV?) to run HD. check out the teir1/2 examples for lower-end HD setups. oh... and i use the kworld ATSC 110 for OTA digital and (with a minor fix to get the firmware to load on boot) it works great in R5E50. |
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| Author: | di11rod [ Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:15 am ] |
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I agree with the other poster saying the CPU and mobo are a bit overkill. Your other cost-savings could be found on the memory if you went with a lower-end processor that didn't require DDR2 ram. di11rod |
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