What I bought
| Case | Silverstone LC03V |
| I really liked this case from the first time I saw it. Good features and good size. I may need to do some ammature carpentry to fit it in the stereo unit though... | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte M55Plus-S3G |
| Well equipped known brand motherboard, on board everything including good quality video (NVIDIA 6100) | |
| CPU | AMD AM2 Dual core 3600+ low voltage |
| Came down to price / speed tradeoff. 3600 should be plenty. Low voltage should help with heat | |
| CPU Cooler | Stock AMD |
| Supplier says this would be ok. I'm happy to try it for a while and see. | |
| PSU | |
| Antec TruePower 2.0 430 | |
| The NEO HE 380 didn't work with the gigabyte motherboard. The 430 was the next best thing the shop had. See the log page for more details. This one has some interesting features to run fans based on the PSU temperature. | |
| Tuner | Technisat AirSat 2 |
| Seems simple with good linux support | |
| Tuner | DVICO Fusion HDTV Hybrid |
| A bit more complex, does analog too, supposed to have good linux support. I went with 2 different cards to increase the chances of at least 1 working ;-) | |
| Keyboard | |
| Remote had good support but the keyboard didn't. Didn't mess around, just returned it. Using the remote from the DVICO card, no keyboard yet. | |
| HD | Samsung 250G SATA |
| Supposed to be quiet... | |
| DVD | Pioneer 111D |
| I like pioneer drives ! |
Other items:
- Compact flash to IDE converter + 1 Gig CF card (plan is to see if I can boot off the Compact flash instead of disk - should be faster)
- Round IDE cable
- 3.5" internal card reader - USB, 1394, Audio, compact flash, SD etc
This shopping list is still a work in progress, but it's starting to take shape.
Current idea is to buy all the core bits (CPU, MB, Memory, Case, Drives etc) and get the basic system up and running. During this process I can see how hot and noisy it all is, and then decide what cooling and quietening options I need to apply.
The plan is to identify as many of the bits I want, then print this page and take it off to the swapmeet and see if I can get better prices.
Looks like a 300W PSU may do the job which should make things a bit cheaper and cooler. Power Supply Calculator
| Item | Where? | How much? |
|---|---|---|
| Silverstone LC03V | auspcmarket | 273.00 |
| Silverstone LC03V | i-tech | 239.00 |
| Arctic cooling PC64 | ||
| PSU Zalman ZM300A-APF 300W Noiseless ATX | i-tech | 75 |
| Athlon 3200+ Venice socket 939 | auspcmarket | 324.50 |
| Athlon 3200+ Venice socket 939 | MSY | 268.00 |
| Athlon 3500+ Venice socket 939 | MSY | 315.00 |
| Gigabyte K8NS Ultra | centrecom | 158.00 |
| Gigabyte K8NS Ultra | MSY | 135.00 |
| PC-3200 1024MB GeIL 184-pin DDR SDRAM CAS 2.5 BHDC w/blue heatspreader, 2x 512mb sticks | auspcmarket | 176.00 |
| Pioneer 110d | MSY | 70 |
| Video: Nvidia 6600 of some type | ? | ? |
| DVICO DNTV Live? | digitalnow | 139.00 |
| Samsung SP2004C 200GB/7200rpm, 8MB SATA | winshop | 178.00 |
Gigabyte GV-N66256DP is a fanless AGP NVidia 6600 card. May be worth a look.
