Please help me with my hardware selection

[rowle1jt]

2) Nvidia FX series cards do not support the Purevideo feature set, therefore has limited hardware de-interlacing capabilities. This will affect picture quality. If you want to use Nvidia, then minimum recommendation of 6150, and 128bit memory interface (on all video cards).

I didn't know that... thanks for the info.

With my new build it looks like I might get more of a video card upgrade than I thought. My quality is not bad, but if it improves... even better!

[bone]

I could have sworn I didn't see anything under 100 dollars that was PCI-Express and had S-video out. I am kind of worried about some of the cards you listed without any reviews at all. After searching I found the video card below that's a little bit more money, but had a really good review. Then I started to look at the ASUS board and since I'm getting an HD that's 3.0 Gb/s, I wanted a mobo that supported it also. After searching awhile I found a mobo that had pretty good reviews, had 3 PCI slots and 6 USB. The price is going up a little bit, but I think this might be a better choice

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) 320GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor

ECS KN1 Lite 1.0A Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

CHAINTECH SE6600/256 Geforce 6600 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Express x16

Logitech Cordless Internet Pro Desktop

ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan

NEC Black Burner

Hauppauge 1062 WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit Tuner Card

Encore ENUWI-SG IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Super-G Wireless Adapter

Thermaltake TR2 W0070 ATX 430W Power Supply 115/230 V

[rowle1jt]

The reason that video card is more is because it is a 6600, higher performance.

ECS board looks good. I have no first hand experience with it, but a couple of my buddies have built with them in the past and have been very pleased.

[bone]

I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me. I just finished placing my order and went with all the parts above except for the PSU. The PSU I have is 400w and the one I was considering is 430w, so I wasn't sure it was worth the money and figured I can always purchase it later. The shipping was only 12 dollars, so that brought the price down. At the end of the order they either give you a free subscription to PcMag or you can get a refund for 9.97, I took the refund as I always get my magazines through http://www.magazinepricesearch.com, which for instance for 7 bucks you an get a two year subscription to maximumpc.

Anyway the total price after all the rebates plus 2% cash back card and shipping and all came out to $608, which is a lot less than I thought it was going to be.

Thanks again everyone

[rowle1jt]

Cool!!!

Congats!

[rowle1jt]

Here is my finished system with pics if you want to check it out.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=19196

[nitrogen_widget]

Slightly off topic,
I was looking at cheap PCI-E video cards for one of my machines & noticed that a good deal of the cards had 32 bit memory interfaces.:eek:

good thing I noticed that before I made a purchase.
I don't know why, but for some reason I just assumed a PCI-E would be at least 128 bit.

I know a 64 bit interface is ok for SDTV & not HDTV.
I'm guessing a 32 bit card might not work so well with GBPVR?

[rowle1jt]

I wouldn't think so either...

32bit... scary! LoL