Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Im looking to build a media center that I can just plug into my TV and stream stuff off the home network with.
I have had a look on ebuyer and I have decided on a couple bits, but I dont understand what mobo, ram and processor I will need 
Here is the list of what I have chosen so far....
Case - Antec Fusion V2
Keyboard
As you can tell I don't know what else I need 
The computer is just going to be used for playing films that are stored on the network, burning data disks, browsing the net and downloading. I currently have an external HDD that I will plug into it for now until I get my NAS for the network.
I'm unsure about what OS to run on it at the moment, will media center be a PITA when I have all my TV shows etc organized into separate folders on the external HDD?
My TV is a R88 32" samsung so I need the graphics card to be compatible with that. I dont have surround sound so for now I dont need a great sound card.
I want it to be upgradeable (ie a couple TV cards in the future)
I need a DVD-RW drive that suites the case. And USB ports at the back.
I hope I have covered everything here, all be it in a very random way. So to sum up... given my requirements what is the best spec to go with, don't want to spend over £300 really unless its WELL worth doing (don't need it for gaming or anything)
I need advice on:
-HDD
-RAM
-Mobo
-Processor
-OS (I have XP and Vista legit versions here so will prob go vista unless media center is the better choice)
-DVD drive
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