Building a BoxeeBox

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mnelson07

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So I'm planning on building a home-theater system that will primarily be using Boxee for media. I already have RAM (G SKILL 2GB DDR2) and a video card (Radeon x700) but I'll need pretty much everything else. What I have thought about is listed below, please feel free to recommended other items, ect:

Motherboard:
ASUS P5E-VM: Newegg.com - ASUS P5E-VM HDMI LGA 775 Intel G35 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400: Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Hard Drive:
Western Digital Caviar 750GB: Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives

Power Supply:
CORSAIR 520HX: Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX 520W ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Power Supplies

Sound Card:
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1: Newegg.com - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card - Sound Cards

DVD Burner:
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner: Newegg.com - LG Black 22X (CAV) DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X (CAV) DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners

PC Case:
SILVERSTONE TJ08-B: Newegg.com - SILVERSTONE TJ08-B Black Aluminum front panel, SECC body MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases
 
I might take your suggestion on the video card, but it should be good enough to handle boxee full res just for playing videos. I doubt I'll be doing any gaming on it, but if for some reason I plan to do anything more demanding on it I may update it. But, you suggested PCI 2.0, I don't think that motherboard supports it.

I think I'll take your suggestion on the PSU, I just figured that PSU has a lot of power and I'd rather have too much so I can expanded to possibly a couple more HDD's or something in the future, or maybe even recycle the PSU to another system.
 
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