New Windows Media Center PC

Shhhh..Don’t tell anyone..I just ordered a brand new Windows Media Centre PC.  Below are the Specs!

Case:   Coolermaster Cavalier CAV-T04
Motherboard:   ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
Memory: 1GB DDR Ram
CPU: AMD 64 3000 Venice Chipset
Storage: 200GB WD SATA II 8MB Hard Drive  I will also be adding another 100GB internal and 300GB External drive as well.
Graphics Card: ASUS 6600 TD 256MB PCI-E
TV Card:  I already have Happauge one in my exisiting Media Centre

Now that brings me to the exsiting Media Centre PC I own.  Awhile back I rebuilt a Dell Dimension 8200 to use it with Media Centre.  Well we’ve started to have issues and decided rather than upgrade I would by a new Media Centre box and use the existing machine as a Windows Vista test machine.  I got got special deal on the new system so it was cheaper and easier than doing it myself.  The existing one is getting a bit old and is a bit too noisy to have in the lounge room.

Well it arrives tomorrow so I’ll do a further post on how the setup goes and what the performance is like.

This is going to be fun!

cheers
jeffa