RE: [ukha_d] Public Service Announcement - MCE2005 PC for £580

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin

The fan noise is very noticeable for the first second or two after turning
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it on, since they obviously come up at full speed initially. After only a
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ery short delay (only a second or so) they slow right down to the point
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re I wasn't conscious of being able to hear them.

Bear in mind I have the PC in a kitchen though, with all the usual
extraneo=
us noise that entails, so I can't really say how noticeable it would be in
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a living room environment.

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 16 January 2005 14:25
To: UKHA group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Public Service Announcement - MCE2005 PC for =A3580


Paul Gordon wrote:

>Hi Kevin.
>
>I never did open the box up & look inside, but I know what you mean
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the rubbish they've written on the website... - it's amazing they manage
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sell anything at all!!
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Dreadfull spec editing....

One more quick Q.. - and I know these things are very difficult to=20
quantify, how noisy is it ?   I assume its still going to be a case of=20
not in the same room as the TV ??  The fans I assume are variable speed=20
or On/Off temperature switched.  I guess the only way to really know=20
this is to pop down to PCW.

>Yes it most definitely DOES have proper 10/100 wired Ethernet built in,
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d it also has a 54g wireless card in one of the PCI slots. At least one
oth=
er PCI slot is taken by the analogue tuner, and TBH I'm really not sure if
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the 3rd one was free or not.
>
>However, if I've read the forums correctly, it isn't possible to have
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tuners of different types (i.e. one analogue, one digital) under MCE2005,
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dual tuner support only works for two of the same type - preferably, (alth=
ough apparently not essentially) the same make & model of card as
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>

I think I've just read the same post  :-)  ... although there seems to=20
be a partial solution here

http://tinyurl.com/44bca

I need to read this a bit more thoroughly though, particulalry with=20
regard to differing channel numbers between the two.

>That being the case, you wouldn't be able to add a freeview card
without r=
emoving the existing analogue one anyway...
>
>WRT to the practical aspects of installing a different tuner card in an
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isting MCE install, I believe it should be relatively straightforward,
prov=
ided as you say, you select one that is certified (the Black Gold's for
exa=
mple).
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>
Looking at that exact one - or the Hauppauge Nova-T oem for MCE2005 ..

K