Re: Building a "media center" PC

Samik R wrote: 
Hello,

I am planning to build a "media center" PC for home. Following are the tasks which I have planned to do till now:
1. TV tuner card for both recording and playing
2. Write DVD (I can outsource DVD writing to another PC though)
3. Play MP3/VCD/DVD/DivX/Xvid files

Hardware:
1. I have got the IOMagic DVD Writer (from Staples BF this year)
2. Planning to get "fx 5200 personal cinema" or "tv wonder pro remote" version (i.e. definitely w/ a remote).

Questions:
1. What kind of CPU-Mobo will be sufficient for this? I don't wanna deluge this w/ lot of unused power.
2. How much power should be sufficient?
3. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for any comments.

Sound good, I would go with 2 TV cards(one view one record or other multipul programing needs).
Your power Q is a hard on I would say for a windows set up go with dual core w/ 2+ gigs of ram for quality. IMO go with linux, check out myth tv, then I would recomend min a 1 gig+ procesor with 512min ram and I will work wonders.

Have fun
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