So which card did you end up using?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Campbell</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@cpfc.org">dave@cpfc.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Calvin Harrigan wrote:<br>> Expensive might be relative. You can get a really motherboard and x2<br>> 3800 processor for around $150. I was reluctant to buy a new board,etc
<br>> just to run HD, but it was well worth the price. No more issues, no<br>> more tweaking for ever last cpu cycle. It just works. On top of that<br>> the box is silent and uses less power.<br><br>Alas I don't live in the land of milk and honey that is the USA - stuff
<br>can be a lot more expensive in the UK<br><br>My existing system also doesn't have a user serviceable MOBO - it came<br>as a barebones.<br><br>820's are about the cheapest Dual core processor here compbined with a
<br>cheap abit mobo comes to about $180 - then add memory - PCI-E card etc<br>and it would make more expensive to ask my Digital TV provider to<br>upgrade me to a HD PVR (Sky HD)<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________
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