djcla
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SHowed the mrs the laptop runnng 7MC tongiht although no sound as i have lost the SPdif adapter, but assume that will work ok in 5.1. Had to run via VGA to my 1024 x 768 Plasma (panasonic px60) which after some tweaking ran smoothly. For some reason 7mc does not seem to have a widescreen 1024 x 768 setting like previous versions so i opted for 1280 x 768 and although slight overscan was fine. SO i am hoping via HDMI should be perfect as VGA is a little washed out.
ANyway need some help deciding what to buy (i know not another thread but always fun getting and giveing advice i think).
Planning to build around the Silverstone GD02 case and now the hard part the bits for the inside.
Hard drive I already have a spare so will use that for the time being just need help on the rest of the bits. Budget say £500ish. I will be buying the new Blackgold Dual DVB-t and DVD-S card when it comes outin december so will use the USB DVD-T dual TV adapter i have interim. Would rather go down the seperate VGA card route and reluctantly going to have to be an ATI 5xxxx series which does not work with CoreAVC for hardware decoding and there has been mention of some BBC HD picture issues..
Now i need some help on Motherboard, CPU, PSU and fans needs to keep this quiet as a mouse and not to thirsty on power.
ANyway need some help deciding what to buy (i know not another thread but always fun getting and giveing advice i think).
Planning to build around the Silverstone GD02 case and now the hard part the bits for the inside.
Hard drive I already have a spare so will use that for the time being just need help on the rest of the bits. Budget say £500ish. I will be buying the new Blackgold Dual DVB-t and DVD-S card when it comes outin december so will use the USB DVD-T dual TV adapter i have interim. Would rather go down the seperate VGA card route and reluctantly going to have to be an ATI 5xxxx series which does not work with CoreAVC for hardware decoding and there has been mention of some BBC HD picture issues..
Now i need some help on Motherboard, CPU, PSU and fans needs to keep this quiet as a mouse and not to thirsty on power.