I am buidling a PVR from scratch, and I need some advice on the hardware that I will be buying. I have built computers before, but never a PVR. Could somebody here please give a quick look through my hardware and give a couple suggestions.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103502
Asus A8N5X NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX Motherboard
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=1178]
MSI NX6600-TD256E Lite Geforce 6600 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127191]
WINTEC AMPO 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820161615]
Hauppauge 980 ( WinTV-PVR-250 ) PCI Interface TV Tuner Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6815116602
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100007]
Arctic Silver ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET) Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100010]

I already have a 200gb hard drive, dvd burner, keyboard, mouse and monitor.

Looks a-Okay to me.

Looks pretty sane to me too. Make sure that the keyboard/mpouse aren't USB and the harddrive isn't SATA and you should be pretty vanilla. You may need to get the latest Nvidia drivers to support your video card however... Search the forum for "8178" for details.