alienandy
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Okay, I'm about to take my first step in to the world of MCE ( Vista ).
Before I spend the cash on this, I need some advice from you experts on here.
Firstly, where I want to put the Media Centre in our living room I am somewhat limited for space in our tv unit. Here are the measurements for the space I have available... 49cms(W) x 10cms(H) x 34cms(D).
I have been looking all over the Net for a case that might fit in here, and the few that I have come across have included a low wattage psu. i.e. 200w or less!
I obviously need something like a 300w psu to run this mce don't I? After all, I will be using atleast a AMD 64 3000+ cpu etc. I know that I can replace the psu if need be, however, I'm not too sure as to the size of the original one?
Does anyone know of a good slim case that already contains atleast a 300w psu? ( preferably a silent one ). I am on a budget of £350-400 with this mce, so I can't really go for some of the htpc cases that I have seen on here.
Also, this might seem like a dumb question, but once you have built up a mce system for under the tv, how do you go about running the mce on say Vista? I assume that everyone sticks mce into the startup folder in windows? I mean, the last thing you want to do is pull out a mouse in the living room and start clicking on the Start Menu!
Thanks.
Before I spend the cash on this, I need some advice from you experts on here.
Firstly, where I want to put the Media Centre in our living room I am somewhat limited for space in our tv unit. Here are the measurements for the space I have available... 49cms(W) x 10cms(H) x 34cms(D).
I have been looking all over the Net for a case that might fit in here, and the few that I have come across have included a low wattage psu. i.e. 200w or less!
I obviously need something like a 300w psu to run this mce don't I? After all, I will be using atleast a AMD 64 3000+ cpu etc. I know that I can replace the psu if need be, however, I'm not too sure as to the size of the original one?
Does anyone know of a good slim case that already contains atleast a 300w psu? ( preferably a silent one ). I am on a budget of £350-400 with this mce, so I can't really go for some of the htpc cases that I have seen on here.
Also, this might seem like a dumb question, but once you have built up a mce system for under the tv, how do you go about running the mce on say Vista? I assume that everyone sticks mce into the startup folder in windows? I mean, the last thing you want to do is pull out a mouse in the living room and start clicking on the Start Menu!
Thanks.