RE: Bit of success with Windows MCE...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Antec Overture case - =A370
2 x Black Gold DVB-T tuner cards - =A3100?
250Gb "RAID Edition" 24/7 duty hard disc - =A380?
Gigabyte Mobo - =A370
Athlon 64 3000 processor and OEM fan - =A370
2 x 512Mb 400MHz DDR DIMM - =A380?=20
MCE Remote and receiver - =A325?
Windows MCE - =A380?
Philips 16 x DVD-R Drive - =A325

... I that's everything that's in there.

The prices with ? after them are ones that I just can't remember as they
were bits of kit that were either bought a long time ago or were
assimilate=
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- for example the 250Gb drive is Li's but was lobbed in the MCE machine
temporarily and hasn't yet come back out.

Phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Paul Gale
> Sent: 24 April 2006 10:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bit of success with Windows MCE...
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> Sounds good phil - what do you think the total price of this=20
> machine works out to now?
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> Paul.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 24 April 2006 10:42
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Bit of success with Windows MCE...
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> Last week I bought a Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 (see here=20
> http://www.mediacomputers.co.uk/shop/acatalog/Micro_ATX_Mother
> boards.html
> for details) and an Athlon 64 3000 as I wanted to get=20
> component video out functionality on my Media Centre machine.
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> Have to say that I'm well impressed at the moment - not only=20
> is the Althon bloody cool running (the hottest things in the=20
> case are now the two Black Gold TV tuners) but the component=20
> video quality isn't at all bad - spent a bit of time tweaking=20
> the output and I have to say it's looking pretty good running at 720p.
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> Best thing is that in the last week I've had *NO* lockups at=20
> all under Media Centre - I used to have my last MCE box (an=20
> Athlon XP 2500+ processor and
> mobo) set to do a reboot in the early hours of the morning if=20
> it wasn't busy as I did experience some tendancy to lock up=20
> with that machine.
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> Athlon 64 seems very capable of running MCE happily - had it=20
> yesterday sitting doing an auto-import of my DVD collection=20
> into MyMovies whilst running the command line defragmeter=20
> from Sysinternals
> (www.sysinternals.com) and watching Emmerdale (for the wife -=20
> honest) and recording Dr. Who ... Not a glitch or missed=20
> frame were noticeable whilst watching Emmerdale (or was it=20
> Corrie?) live or whilst watching the recording of Dr. Who later.
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> All in all very impressed with that combination ... Need to=20
> get hold of the SP/DIF output backplate (which Stewart at=20
> Gigtek is trying to source further supplies of at the moment)=20
> and I'm wondering whether one of the PCI-E Terratec dual=20
> tuner cards would be much cooler running than the dual Black=20
> Gold cards but other than that - and the wish that MCE=20
> natively supported more than two tuners without resorting to=20
> fudging the registry - I think that machine is now
"finished".
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> Phil
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