Luke Carbis It’s more complicated than 42.

Media PC

I’m procrastinating from uni, so here’s the specs of the new media PC which I’m making for T & myself.

• Gigabyte GA-8VD667K Motherboard (already owned) link
• Pentium 4 3.0Ghz (approx. $50) link
• Socket 478 Cooling Fan & Heatsink (approx. $13) link
• 512MB DDR RAM (already owned)
• 750GB SATA 7200RPM 32MB HDD (already owned) link
• SATA / IDE cross converter (approx. $7) link
• PSU (already owned)
• Sony 20x DVDRW IDE ($36.50) link
• Asus 802.11b/g Wireless PCI Card ($32) link
• CoolerMaster RC283 Media Case ($116) link
• Creative Inspire M5300 5.1 Speakers ($68) link
• BenQ G2400WD 24″ Lcd Monitor with D-sub, Dvi-D & HDMI ($300) link

Some parts are a bit of a hack together, I know, but I think it will do the job. Comes to a grand total of $622.50, including 5.1 surround sound and a 24″ monitor as a screen.

I’m thinking I will run Plex on it. Motherboard hasn’t been test on OSx86 (quite old) but I’ll give it a shot, otherwise Ubuntu.