hi
i've had my toshiba 46wm48p for a year now and i'll like to connect a pc to it that is capable of smoothly playing hd material; also need to burn home vids to dvd
my budget is around £800; i'm not too keen on building a pc, nor am i bothered about having a flash slim case, or a super quite machine
i've got a couple of specs from dell & mesh and i was hoping that someone could tell me which is the better
my main concerns are ...
[1] the video cards .. are they gonna be sufficient ?
[2] do i really need MCE ?
[3] are the machines gonna be faster enough ?
and if i added another £100 to my budget .. which components should be upgraded
appreciate your comments
devlee
costs inc. vat, delivery & standard warranty
DELL Dimension 5150 (D03512) £781
Base Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 640 with HT technology (3.20GHz, 800MHz fsb, 2MB cache)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition, SP2
Memory 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 400MHz [4x512]
Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor
Video Card 256MB ATI Radeon® X600 HyperMemory graphics card
Hard Drive 160GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst cache
CD/DVD Drives 16x DVD+/-RW & 16x DVD Drives
Sound Cards Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS (Dell), PCI w/Dolby Digital, 7.1 speaker support & IEEE1394
MESH Matrix Premier (05) £741.82
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ with HyperTransport Technology
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
ASUS A8N-VM - Nforce 410 PCI-Express Mainboard - Micro ATX
1024MB DDR400 Memory - PC3200 (2x512)
200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB Buffer
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW
512MB DDR2 nVIDIA GeForce 7300GS - TV out- DVI - PCI X (256Mb SMA)
19" Viewsonic VA912 Digital & Multi Media Flat Panel Display
5.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio-SoundMAX (on-board)
Firewire PCI Card - adds IEEE1394 Connectivity to your PC
i've had my toshiba 46wm48p for a year now and i'll like to connect a pc to it that is capable of smoothly playing hd material; also need to burn home vids to dvd
my budget is around £800; i'm not too keen on building a pc, nor am i bothered about having a flash slim case, or a super quite machine
i've got a couple of specs from dell & mesh and i was hoping that someone could tell me which is the better
my main concerns are ...
[1] the video cards .. are they gonna be sufficient ?
[2] do i really need MCE ?
[3] are the machines gonna be faster enough ?
and if i added another £100 to my budget .. which components should be upgraded
appreciate your comments
devlee
costs inc. vat, delivery & standard warranty
DELL Dimension 5150 (D03512) £781
Base Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 640 with HT technology (3.20GHz, 800MHz fsb, 2MB cache)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition, SP2
Memory 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 400MHz [4x512]
Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor
Video Card 256MB ATI Radeon® X600 HyperMemory graphics card
Hard Drive 160GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst cache
CD/DVD Drives 16x DVD+/-RW & 16x DVD Drives
Sound Cards Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS (Dell), PCI w/Dolby Digital, 7.1 speaker support & IEEE1394
MESH Matrix Premier (05) £741.82
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ with HyperTransport Technology
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
ASUS A8N-VM - Nforce 410 PCI-Express Mainboard - Micro ATX
1024MB DDR400 Memory - PC3200 (2x512)
200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB Buffer
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW
512MB DDR2 nVIDIA GeForce 7300GS - TV out- DVI - PCI X (256Mb SMA)
19" Viewsonic VA912 Digital & Multi Media Flat Panel Display
5.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio-SoundMAX (on-board)
Firewire PCI Card - adds IEEE1394 Connectivity to your PC