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Build a Homemade Media Center PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 16, 2006 @10:09AM from the one-way-to-do-it dept.

DigitalDame2 writes "PC Magazine's Loyd Case explains how to build a Media Center PC of your own, how to choose the parts for a custom project, and tips for the Motherboard." I imagine you guys might have some other opinions on what parts and tools to use for the task...

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Re:Where do you get Windows Media Center Edition? by everphilski · 2006-02-16 10:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16832102311
Re:Where do you get Windows Media Center Edition? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-16 10:20 · Score: -1, Redundant

Oh, BTW - FIRST POST!
You fail it!
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MCE 2005 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-16 10:24 · Score: -1, Redundant

Last I checked you could get MCE OEM from say newegg. That's the only way legally, that I'm aware of unless you have an MSDN subscription :-D And a 64X 3800 and 2gigs of ram is overkill, I'm doing fine with a 1.1GHZ AMD Thunderbird and 512mb.