So, I’ve decided a Media PC is the next project of mine. I just purchased a motherboard and video card to handle the HD side of things.
Here are the current specs:
Silverstone Media Case
Recycled 350W PSU
Asus P5GC-MX/1333 LGA 775 DDR2 Motherboard
1GB PNY DDR2 667 Memory
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140 1.6GHz 1MB 800MHz
Sapphire HD 3450 256MB 64-bit
Hauppage WinTV [...]
In my last post, I introduced a review from Custom PC about Windows 7. In turn, I also accosted one of the worst operating systems right now, Windows Vista. I recently built a computer this week that taught both the owner and I a lesson on why Vista isn’t so bad.
We all know about the [...]
“Windows 7,” the successor to the less-than-popular Windows Vista has promised a lot of upgrades. And, by upgrades I mean a lot of common sense that didn’t make it into Vista. One to note, covered by the UK hosted Custom PC, is that Windows 7 will no longer need dedicated graphics to render its higher [...]
The entire drive and idea behind the new “I’m a PC” ads from Microsoft is to battle the negative vibe of Vista and its effects. It’s not working. I’ve known every day since Windows 95 came out that most of the world uses a PC. Also, I’ve known everyday that most of the world is [...]
Backing up is a pain, so I decided to find something that didn’t make me babysit backing up my computer every so often. The horrible thing was that I only backed up every month or so, very inconsistently. For the developers and IT of us out there, that’s a bad idea. You never know when [...]