Media Center PC

[zerodayATK]

ok ima deff building a media center pc for the living room , all it has to do is veiw web pages play dvds/cds and .. thats it lol... nothing else.. im prolly going to go AMD AM2 .. just for upgradeablitiy later on bc i can see this comp being used for medium duty use in the future....... looking at this board maybe... any thoughts?this board here... BIOSTAR

 

[Sora]

it's a good board for the price, I would go C2D as they are better and we don't know for sure anyway who will come out on top in a few months anyway. Still it's your money and that is a good AM2 board for the price.

 

[zerodayATK]

yeah i was going to go c2d but i dont need the duo core powahhh ... at least i dont think lol

 

[Sora]

I understand, since X2's will pretty much do whatever you need these days as well. If it's a media center PC just get an X2 3800 and that board, it will do what you need it to do for cheap.

 

[zerodayATK]

yurp my thoughts exactly^^^

 

[Sora]

yea the X3800 is such a kickass CPU for the price and it will overclock pretty decent too.

Heh AMD still is in the game.

 

[zerodayATK]

this is what i have so far.....LITE-ON Combo Drive Black SATA Model SHC-52S7K-05 - OEM

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

BIOSTAR NF4UAM2G Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

WINTEC AMPO 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory Model 3AMD2667-1G2-R - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADO3800CSBOX - Retail

Microsoft Windows XP Home Sp2b 1pk w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - OEM

 

[Sora]

Sounds pretty good to me, make sure you get a nice sound card though

 

[zerodayATK]

yeah deff.. look at my post about hooking it up to help me there