Zalman HD160XT PLUS BLACK HTPC ATX Case from UMART
Intel DG45ID motherboard from UMART
I have chosen the Intel motherboard because it is a low power, compact design for a media centre, it has all the sound and video features I want. But most importantly it has the Intel graphics drivers in the xorg release.
This mother board can handle LGA775 socket type CPU's and being a media centre I don't think I will need much more than a dual core. Not at all sure what to get yet, but something low energy would be good.
Should not need that much memory, but I will get 4GB 800Mhz DDRII possibly
I'd like to get multiple disks, and setup a storage host, with the media centre accessing the storage via network - iSCSI. I am not sure what the performance impact will be compared to local disks.
The most important component apart from the video/graphics display controller is the TV capture/tuner card. I have the Huapage T-500 in mind, all reports so far say it is working well with MythTV :
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/59739/Hauppauge/NOVA500MCE.asp
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