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Any thing I should change I'm on a very strict budget and is a 430 Watt PSU enough this is mostly going to be a Tivo/DVR and see and game on my HDTV once in a while. I will buy most of the parts from ZipZoomFly and some other stuff from Newegg
AMD Athlon 64 Venice 3500+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103533
Asus A8N-VM CSM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131570
Have Memory
Have 2 Hard Drives 8 MB Cache Maxtor 6Y80PO and a 6Y160PO (80GB and a 160 GB)
Have A hauppauge PVR-150 MCE
Have A NEC ND-2500A
Cooler Master CM Media RC-260 Slim HTPC Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119100
Antec True Power 2.0 430 Watthttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817103928
Sapphire Brand X1600XT 256MB With Tv and HDTV Out
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6814102668
Accessories PCI-Express Riser Card for the Case and a SPDIF Out Bracket for the MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816105001
http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1013
Thanks

ah....i would recommend if its for HTPC use an Intel Pentium D since intel is generally better with the whole encoding and stuff also u want a dual core that when u are encoding or converting files u can still use the PC.


Maybe a low end Intel pentium D not the 805 though thats only for overclockers. maybe the 820 although the 930 would be a good deal

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819116238


and u can run it for a prolonged time w/o issues because of thermal protection if it gets too hot it'll auto shut off.


once again my opinoin if ur an AMD fan go for AMD.

btw.here is a little bit of info that may be useful.

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Intel Prices on July 23
Core 2 Duo

X6800 2.93GHz 4mb $999
E6700 2.67GHz 4mb $530
E6600 2.40GHz 4mb $316
E6400 2.13GHz 2mb $224
E6300 1.86GHz 2mb $183


Pentium D

960 $316
950 $224
945 $163
940 $183
820 $113
805 $93


Pentium 4

661 $183
651, 641, and 631 $163
541 $84
531 $74
524 $69


AMD has lowered Athlon 64 prices right now:

Athlon 64 3000 $89
Athlon 64 3200 $99
Athlon 64 3500 $109
Athlon 64 3800 $139


AMD prices July 24

Athlon FX-SAME PRICE

Athlon X2

5000+ $403
4600+ $301
3800+ $169


Sempron

3600+ $109
3500+ $97
3400+ $87
3200+ $77
3000+ $67
2800+ $53
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hope that helped. if i were u i would wait for the cheap prices to build budget system(s)