[TriLUG] htpc case / info

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
Tue Dec 18 07:29:14 EST 2007


currently i'm looking at: 

http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Cases/sstlc18.asp

and

http://www.geek.com/moneual-moncaso-932b-htpc-case/?option=content&task=
view&id=936

(not necessarily where i'm going to buy it from, but where i saw it
first). the idea with the 7" lcd is that when i'm playing a movie it'll
display the cover on the screen. same applies with audio. am i far off
in having an expectation like this, or is it something that's fairly
easy (as in out of the box with mythtv ...etc)?

ideally, i'd like to put 5 hdds in there, most likely 5x 500gb or 5x
1tb. i'm trying to come up with a good balance between having what i
want, and keeping it cool. for a video card, i've decided on the ATI TV
Wonder 650 HDTV PCI TV Tuner and ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB DDR3 (2x DVD
HDMI+AUDIO HDCP). for the cpu, i'd probably go with something 45nm, and
along the core 2 duo line. for memory, i'm leaning toward 4gb kingston
ddr2-667 (4x 1024mb). i'm currently undecided on the motherboard.

obviously for the os, i'd really like to use mythtv ...but would
probably go with a distro that has it all bundled over trying to use
gentoo ...and worry about manually configuring everything.



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