I have been wanting to build a media center pc for the longest time now one that can record my tv shows and play them straight to my tv , i would like to only spend 500 buck s but a little over is ok i had some suggestions before but if some one can post some for me that would be cool thanks,
For 500 bucks, this is what i would do. I would upgrade my machine's RAM, graphics and video card, and get a bigger monitor. I would buy an external Hard drive. 500 Gigabytes should be more than enough. Then get the right cables to connect your pc to tv and presto! you gots a media center machine.
hmm ok. Would you rather build or buy a pc? Either way you are looking around $700+ to get a pc with better specs. I seen this HP tower strictly made for Media Center. it had 750 gig drive, 4gigs of ram, all these open slots for memory cards n everything. It cost around $800 just the tower alone. i mean it just depends on what you are looking for. If you have a spare tower laying around, upgrade its RAM, drive space, video and graphics card. i did a little search and stumbled on this: http://www.pvrwire.com/2006/12/14/cheap-media-center-pc-6-pci-tv-tuner-60-120gb-hard-drive/
