Originally Posted by
Artemis
OK, usual lounge blather aside the NVidia 8600 is a very good HTPC card and is ideal for this. It has NVidia PureVideoHD and Bluray playback built in. Now the reason for this speech is you do not need a particularly powerful processor to run even at 1080p so even a low end AM2 dual core will be ideal. The one thing that concerns me is the 200w PSU this is quite small.
Your case rawks though so this should be an awesome setup.
I have configured the two most common Linux mediacenters LinuxMCE and the Elyssa media center for Gnome and have to say that Windows based solutions are simpler. This may sound like sacrilege but there is a far wider range of hardware that is supported by windows based media center apps like mediaportal, WindowsMCE itself or even Nero Home.
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