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19-09-2010 3:11pm#1
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The HDD is probably overkill - most Sky boxes get by with a PVR partition of just ~40GB
Look out for cheap 1TB Samsung F2s and F3s doing the rounds for around €50. The F3 is better but the EcoGreens run cooler.
That RAM will not work in your Dell. Your system runs on DDR2, and old, slow modules at that, although hopefully newer, faster modules will simply underclock themselves and run at 533MHz in your old system.
€50 is an absurd amount for that graphics card, even with the current ultra-high GPU prices at the low end. Look out for cheap G210/HD3450/HD4350s under €40, or cheap HD4650s under €50 - I've seen HD4350s for under €30 on Pixmania, and G210s for under €40.
As for the TV card(s)... I'm no expert, but maybe there's a way to use two decent-ish but much cheaper DVB-S cards in tandem?
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Do you have any spare DIMM slots? If not, just get a couple of these and stick them in. If you do you can probably keep your original memory too for 3GB
If you could get by on 1.5TB you could get the Samsung F2 EcoGreen and save a good €30
Bear in mind if you're shopping on HWVS you have some lovely budget options (unlike the Irish etailers right now!
) - you can get old HD3450s and 8400GS north of a mere €25 and the HD4550 just above €30, with G210s and even HD5450s starting just north of €35! It does make the HD4650 a bit pointless unless you also want to encode HD content or play some older games at 720p on the same system.
The only DVB-S tuner on HWVS that can handle multiple inputs is this but its very expensive overkill for you unless you fancy playing with four LNBs at once There is a significant problem though - your PC wouldn't even be able to handle it :eek: And this is what I'm worrying about - looking at the minimum requirements of just a single-LNB DVB-S tuner card I'm not sure whether your old P4 can even physically keep up with either two such cards or a single dual-LNB card 0 -
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It looks like merry overkill if you won't be gaming with it HD5750 for the telly?!?
I was about to spec you a build only at the very end to find that the Antec MicroFusion has DOUBLED in price on HWVS!! :eek::mad::mad:0 -
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With all the information out there, I'm really confused now.
I'm in two minds now:
1) to go with an all-in-one set up, part gaming rig, part NAS, part HTPC. As iI see it I will end up spending more money than I want without doing justice to any of my aims.
2) My order of need right now is:More storage space for my ever growing Audio and video library. I think I can do this by adding another hard drive to my old Dell Dimension DM051HTPC to be able to watch both Freeview TV, FreeSat TV and the new DTT serviceGaming rig
I wonder if I buy a hard drive, memory and graphics card that will work/improve my Dell, will I be able to cannibalize any of them for my HTPC or gaming rig later?
Or would they be no use for a modern set-up?
Thanks
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How the hell are you even playing DAO on a G210?!?! :eek:
In any case, if you use the Dell as a NAS there'd be no reason to take stuff back out of it as you can just use it as a NAS as-is (once you add storage, anyway!) and the guts of the Dell (CPU/mobo/RAM/case/PSU...) is all either very old or old and BTX to boot, so its all bin-worthy if you don't keep it for NAS duties! 0 -
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