rhinoman
Prominent Member
Current setup:-
AE100
Abit VH6 mobo
Celeron 1.2 Tualitin
Zalmann Cooler
Enermax PSU
512mb of PC133
Sapphire ATI 9000 128mb
Cheap soundcard with optical out
Pinnacle Rave
Theatretek
Dscaler 4.01
Win XP pro (heavily hacked about)
While the DVD picture is quite superb, my Sky+ feeding the Rave card is only okay, its not that is particularly suffers a great deal of noise but it does consistently drop frames. I had been on the verge of ordering a H3D but with recent comments by Jeff especially, saying that the new CX23*** cards grab svideo about as cleanly, and that I have no great desire to go SDI DVD player then I think that the money would be better spent upgrading my motherboard and processor for extra grunt for DScaler.
AMD or Intel?
I have no particular preference to which to go for, my desktop machine is an Athlon 2200+ with PC2700 ddr and an Asus A7V333 and seems nice and stable, cooling ability or the lack of need to is probably my higher priority. I probably wont overclock so that ability doesn't really concern me. The machine is a dedicated HTPC connected to my LAN for internet, music sharing, displaying photos etc stored on my server.I dont play games.Wake on IR would be a nice feature but not that important as I rarely turn it off.
Suggestions please:-
Which processor and how fast, how important is onboard cache in the chip (celeron or pentium 4), and of course which motherboard?
Thanks
AE100
Abit VH6 mobo
Celeron 1.2 Tualitin
Zalmann Cooler
Enermax PSU
512mb of PC133
Sapphire ATI 9000 128mb
Cheap soundcard with optical out
Pinnacle Rave
Theatretek
Dscaler 4.01
Win XP pro (heavily hacked about)
While the DVD picture is quite superb, my Sky+ feeding the Rave card is only okay, its not that is particularly suffers a great deal of noise but it does consistently drop frames. I had been on the verge of ordering a H3D but with recent comments by Jeff especially, saying that the new CX23*** cards grab svideo about as cleanly, and that I have no great desire to go SDI DVD player then I think that the money would be better spent upgrading my motherboard and processor for extra grunt for DScaler.
AMD or Intel?
I have no particular preference to which to go for, my desktop machine is an Athlon 2200+ with PC2700 ddr and an Asus A7V333 and seems nice and stable, cooling ability or the lack of need to is probably my higher priority. I probably wont overclock so that ability doesn't really concern me. The machine is a dedicated HTPC connected to my LAN for internet, music sharing, displaying photos etc stored on my server.I dont play games.Wake on IR would be a nice feature but not that important as I rarely turn it off.
Suggestions please:-
Which processor and how fast, how important is onboard cache in the chip (celeron or pentium 4), and of course which motherboard?
Thanks