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18th Feb 09 at 01:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I built a PC 2 weeks ago but then I realised I actually barely use it...

It's not great spec, but it's everything you'll need...

It's got a MSI Mainboard with HTPC-out so it can send sound and video to the TV through HDMI. It's got 2gb of RAM and a 2ghz AMD CPU. It also has a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint HDD. It's literally as slim and small as a DVD player and very quiet with the slow CPU fan. It's got a laptop DVD-RW drive.

It's got Vista Ultimate on it and I've ripped 100+ DVDs in full quality with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. It also has a fair few Blu-ray rips. I set it up to stream media to the PS3 but I'm just not using it enough.

I also installed Apache, MySQL and PHP and used it as a web testing server -- you can un-install this if you don't want it obviously.

I'll get pics and the exact spec if anyone if anyone is remotely interested, but I didn't want to bother as I doubt there's many people keen on getting one. If you're interested let me know and I'll make a proper for-sale thread in the classifieds...
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18th Feb 09 at 01:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i might be interested, how much?
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Uhm, probably about £290 (ish) -- I've not really thought about it but I've got eBuyer invoice of £450 and it was literally 2-3 weeks ago... The 1TB HDD alone is £80 new so you can see where the price is coming from.
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This is the case: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123960

It's £50 and has superb reviews everywhere...
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18th Feb 09 at 09:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Please delete this post and put an ad in classifieds
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18th Feb 09 at 10:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

is it hdmi out or dvi out?

does it have other ways to send audio out

s vid?
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Get it down to around £250 and we have a deal
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u2u sent

 
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