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I Checked Ebay for everything, and the prices are higher than on NewEgg as GoManutd stated. Also, I would rather have everything shipped together than wait for 4 or 5 different sellers to ship the items.

I've actually stopped trusting pricewatch. I've bought a few items from various companies on pricewatch, and about 50% of them arrive defective.


I'm planning on purchasing this stuff sometime next week. I'll make sure to post on how the install goes with all of these Items.

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Hello All!

So, I've been really interested in setting up a LinuxMCE Hybrid but my funds are low, so I'm going to try for a budget system. I wanted to know peoples opinions on what I have chose before I purchase. If you know of any issues, or something I should upgrade or downgrade, please let me know. I've searched all the forums and FAQs high and low, and as far as I know this all should work. I can pick it up from newegg.com for under $250

Here it is:

BIOSTAR TFORCE TF520-A2 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 520 MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Orleans 1.8GHz Socket AM2 Processor
1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667
Maxtor 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
MSI GeForce 7300LE 128MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card


I picked the motherboard because it has 3 PCI, 2 PCI express 1X and 1 PCI express 16X and the AM2 socket. This seemed logical so in the future, I could upgrade the processor and also add PVR-x50 cards and other add ons. It also has 4 SATA connectors so I can add hard drives as I fill them up.

The Video card is a GeForce 7x00 and from what I could tell, it would support UI2 with the Alpha. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance!