hi forum,
am thinking of building a multimedia pc.
my goal is to:
1- be able to stream internet radio over my living room
amplifier, so the pc will need either spdif or digital optical output onboard or soundcard.
2-stream video.
3-capture tv via an ati tv card or hauppage card.
4-rip cd's into mp3 to store on hdd.
5-wireless connection via 802.11g (thru 30ft concrete walls).
I initially thought the system would be based on an asus a7n8x motherboard with spdif with athlon 2500+barton 256mb ram, but I read for streaming video possibly need a more powerful cpu (ie p4).
Is this really necessary. I want the system to be minimal cost.
I have an old dell dimension 4600?? which i think may be OK to use, as it is virtually silent, has a P2 cpu @450mhz, 40gb hdd and i can boost it to 256ram.
would this have enough juice to do the job, after i put a wireless card in.
I was also thinking of using Linux as the OS with Freevo which is linux based TV capture program.
thanks for all replies.
mfm
am thinking of building a multimedia pc.
my goal is to:
1- be able to stream internet radio over my living room
amplifier, so the pc will need either spdif or digital optical output onboard or soundcard.
2-stream video.
3-capture tv via an ati tv card or hauppage card.
4-rip cd's into mp3 to store on hdd.
5-wireless connection via 802.11g (thru 30ft concrete walls).
I initially thought the system would be based on an asus a7n8x motherboard with spdif with athlon 2500+barton 256mb ram, but I read for streaming video possibly need a more powerful cpu (ie p4).
Is this really necessary. I want the system to be minimal cost.
I have an old dell dimension 4600?? which i think may be OK to use, as it is virtually silent, has a P2 cpu @450mhz, 40gb hdd and i can boost it to 256ram.
would this have enough juice to do the job, after i put a wireless card in.
I was also thinking of using Linux as the OS with Freevo which is linux based TV capture program.
thanks for all replies.
mfm